Small-town Nova Scotians could soon see themselves travelling the information superhighway.
Today, the federal government announced they would be investing $17.7 million from the Connect to Innovate program to provide high speed Internet to people in rural areas of the province.
South Shore-St.Margaret’s MP Bernadette Jordan is excited to see $6.4 million of that will be used to help people in her riding.
“As we know, $6.4 million is not enough to connect everyone that wants to be connected but it’s a good starting point. I think that’s one of the things that we have to focus on is that, this is the first step in, hopefully, a very long-term project.”
The Connect to Innovate program is distributing $500 million to bring high speed Internet to rural areas across the country.
Jordan says which areas will be getting the high-speed connections won’t be made public for a couple of weeks.
“Hopefully we’ll starting rolling things out in the next two weeks. We’ll have the announcement of where the connections are going to be and from there, the ISPs (Internet Service Providers) will get started.”
Jordan says that connectivity is essential to attracting and keeping people in rural areas.
Happy to be with @scottbrison & @ColinFraserMP this morning to announce $17 million for NS through the Connect to Innovate fund. $6.4 million for South Shore St Margaret’s. More great news to share! Details coming soon! #connect #Rural #ISED pic.twitter.com/tpV3HggNO3
— Bernadette Jordan (@BernJordanMP) May 4, 2018
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Reported by Ed Halverson
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E-mail: halverson.ed@radioabl.ca
