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Operation High Speed part 2: $94 million in funding announced

KAHNAWAKE, QC – The Government of Quebec today announced a $94 million joint investment with the Government of Canada in phase two of Operation High Speed, which is helping bring high-speed Internet connections to the entire province by September 2022. This new round of funding will provide 18,200 additional households with access to high-speed Internet services. “We also solidified connections that are at risk of not being done by September 2022,” Gilles Bélanger, parliamentary assistant to the premier for high-speed Internet in Quebec, told Cartt.ca. Those connections come from previous programs that did not have strict clauses in their contracts for...