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Cartt.ca Interview: Like other rural Canadians Minister Bernadette Jordan has terrible internet. She wants to fix that for everyone

OTTAWA – Last month, Bernadette Jordan, who was appointed Canada’s first rural economic development minister in January, unveiled both the federal government’s economic development strategy for rural Canada and High-Speed Access for All: Canada’s Connectivity Strategy to help all rural and remote communities “fully participate in the global economy and society.”Jordan (right), who is also the Liberal MP for the Nova Scotia riding of South Shore–St. Margarets (a large rural riding which extends from just outside of Halifax to near the tip of the Nova Scotia peninsula near Barrington), spoke to one of our Parliament Hill correspondents, Christopher Guly, about...