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RECENT PUBLIC INVESTMENT
IN EXPANDING BROADBAND
INTERNET ACCESS
• $2.75 billion: ISED's Universal
Broadband Fund
• $4 billion: Ontario Connects program
• $3 billion: Canada Infrastructure Bank
• $750 million: Canadian Radio-television
and Telecommunications Commission
• $390 million: Alberta (feds matching)
• $415 million: B.C. (feds matching)
• $413.15 million Quebec (feds matching)
• $20 million: Newfoundland and
Labrador (feds providing $116 million)
project, stretching a 1,200-kilometre,
150-megawatt transmission line from
Manitoba to Nunavut.
e Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
also has a broadband fund, which will use
up to $750 million in the next five years
to support projects that are building or
upgrading access and transport infra-
structure to provide broadband internet
access to underserved areas. ere is also
funding for broadband access in the rural
and northern communities infrastructure
stream of Infrastructure Canada's Investing
in Canada program, which supports
various projects in rural and northern
communities via bilateral agreements with
provinces and territories.
There are also numerous broadband
initiatives occurring at the provincial
level, many in partnership with the federal
government.
