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On March 17, 2023, the Honourable Gudie Hutchings, Minister of Rural Economic Development, announced up to $37 million in funding to bring high-speed Internet access and mobile connectivity to over 5,000 homes in areas across Saskatchewan.
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On March 3, 2023, the governments of Canada and Ontario announced over $61 million in combined federal and provincial funding for Bell Canada, the Northwestern Ontario Innovation Centre and Keewaytinook Okimakanak to bring high-speed Internet access to more than 16,000 homes and businesses in rural Ontario.
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On March 2, 2023, Paul Chiang, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion (Diversity and Inclusion), and Tony Van Bynen, Member of Parliament for Newmarket–Aurora, on behalf of the Honourable Gudie Hutchings, Minister of Rural Economic Development, along with Amarjot Sandhu, Parliamentary Assistant to Ontario’s Minister of Infrastructure, on behalf of the Honourable Kinga Surma, Ontario’s Minister of Infrastructure, and Dawn Gallagher Murphy, Member of Provincial Parliament for Newmarket–Aurora, announced more than $48 million in combined funding for YorkNet to bring high-speed Internet access to over 3,800 homes in Ontario communities.
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On February 22, 2023, the Honourable Gudie Hutchings, Minister of Rural Economic Development, and Ken McDonald, Member of Parliament for Avalon, together with the Honourable Sarah Stoodley, Minister of Digital Government and Service NL, announced up to $94 million in federal and provincial funding to bring high-speed Internet access to over 36,000 homes in rural, remote and Indigenous communities across Newfoundland and Labrador.
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On December 19, 2022, the Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, on behalf of the Honourable Gudie Hutchings, Minister of Rural Economic Development, announced up to $31 million in federal funding for the Municipality of Pictou County to bring high-speed Internet access to over 4,700 households in communities throughout Nova Scotia.
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On November 25, 2022, the Honourable Gudie Hutchings, Minister of Rural Economic Development, together with Michele Babchuk, Member of the Legislative Assembly for North Island, announced $5.2 million in federal and provincial funding to bring high-speed Internet access to over 1,100 households on and around Vancouver Island, in British Columbia.
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On October 26, 2022, the Honourable Gudie Hutchings, Minister of Rural Economic Development, along with Amarjot Sandhu, Parliamentary Assistant to Ontario’s Minister of Infrastructure, on behalf of the Honourable Kinga Surma, Ontario’s Minister of Infrastructure, announced the following high-speed Internet projects:
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Residents of rural communities to benefit from increased connectivity to high-speed Internet
