Harper government sucks rural broadband strategy fund for CAP

Liberal MPs said that Tony Clement , the industry minister , while making pay for Community Access Program (CAP) from the Rural Broadband fund must affirm the rural Canadians for their share of fund for the rural broadband internet.

Liberal Industry Critic Marc Garneau said that in the era of digitalization the rural broadband must be considered parallel to CAP as such programs help the rural area Canadians to get online employment, training, education, markets, economic and government services that they aspire to seek.

The industry ministry in rectification of his statement that the funds for CAP are coming to an end on april1 said that CAP sites which had been developed in 1995 by the liberal government to rural and remote schools, library and community centres will remain to get funding from rural broadband strategy fund.

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Mr. Garneau said that Mr. Clement has rolled out letters to schools, libraries and community centres stating that they would not get internet funding in an attempt to control political damage but he has still got to give an explanation for the fate of rural broadband strategy if that fund would be used to cover CAP.

The rural broadband strategy fund rolled out in 2009 budget will run out in two years and till date zero funding has been made for the aforesaid purpose and the allocations has been done for the CAP from that very fund.

New Brunswick MP Jean-Claude D'Amours, speaking on behalf of upset constituents asked clarification from the minister Clement to clear up the confusion created by his statement showing government’s fiscal incompetency.

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Bellevue puts efforts to get Google broadband bandwagon

Bellevue, placed a few miles from the Microsoft’s headquarter, is the latest city after Seattle , Renton, Bellingham and Portland to bid for the Google’s high speed internet network.

Trying to attract the search engine giant to their respective communities, politicians have been traced while making an attempt to make unusual PR stunts. Bellevue in an attempt to lure the search engine has also tried to showcase the support of the public by carrying out surveys, uploading videos on you tube and commenting on city’s Facebook page.

Thanks to the search engine for making the deadline the 26th day of March, 2010 or it would have been very difficult to predict that when such campaigns would come to an end. Now, these would be continued for the week that is left so as to make any changes as was in case of Topeka, Kansas.
Well, where does the huge inspiration come from? The answer is not too far. It’s the Google’s highly lucrative offer to provide high speed internet in selected communities, with a speed as high as 1 gigabyte per second. Telework, education, movie downloads and many other things would be transformed drastically,Bellevue said.

Steve Sarkozy,the Bellevue City Manager, said that the city would be exemplary for demonstrating ultra-high-speed broadband internet as the residents of the city are highly creative courtesy; the business in his city has broken all records of innovation and one of those business includes Microsoft offices set up in downtown Bellevue. Further, the city is in a position to showcase the advantages of the project taken by Google.

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