Rural internet connection is a real topic in Canada. Not by our higher levels of government, they’re simply not capable of making any meaningful change, but amongst a huge variety of community groups. Canada has, predictably, terrible internet service to go along with our highest cost in the first world phone and television bills.
That was a legitimate part of my wife and I selecting a house to purchase a handful of years ago. As she works in digital marketing she is able to work for companies basically anywhere (was working for one in Toronto when we moved here, now working for one in Vancouver), but we had to make sure not only the area, but the STREET in the area we were looking at had good enough internet. There were houses that were 100ft away from the apparent end of a good line and internet providers wouldn’t spoil a wire that far for 10,000.
We talked about that here for about a week, and now no one remembers. And by “we talked” I mean there were some news articles. You’d think with as much effort as we put in pretending to care about environmental issues it would maybe come up in an election, but no.
Real estate is the single largest contributing sector to the Canadian GDP. That’s the answer. Our current spending system is based on requiring growth above debt increase indefinitely, any serious attempt to adjust the market could legitimately collapse our national debt spending strategy, which supports most of the provinces.
