Feds to deploy $6.9 million for broadband development in Quebec

ROUYN-NORANDA – Fifty-one rural communities can look forward to better broadband soon thanks to $6.9 million in federal money. “The Honourable Stéphane Dion, Minister of the Environment, on behalf of the Honourable David L. Emerson, Minister of Industry, and several other federal partners, today announced that the Centre des technologies de l'information et des communications is receiving $6.9 million in funding from the Government of Canada to deploy broadband, or high-capacity Internet, to an estimated 51 municipalities in the areas of Abitibi, Abitibi-Ouest, Rouyn-Noranda, Témiscamingue and the Vallée-de-l'Or, among which there are seven Algonquin communities,” reads the press release. The...