This is a big issue in all rural areas, certainly everywhere in north america, and the problem is, you know, I think what has to happen is government has to realize that just as electrification of the rural areas was very important, you know, 80 years ago, 90 years ago, I think the "internetification," which is a terrible word but the right idea, of rural areas is equally important. If you're not online nowadays, you can't -- you're limited in how you could participate, even in government, but certainly as to the information you can get, commerce, it's just good for the country. So I think we need to call on our governmental leaders to really force this issue because, I'll tell you, business isn't gonna do it.

It's too sparsely populated. There's not enough money for them to do it. Now, there are some technologies coming that'll make it a little more affordable, you know, and they're not gonna string cable or wires, but they might do something wireless like this. This is wimax, and everybody's going crazy over wimax right now, w-i-m-a-x. It's a long distance wi-fi that does promise to wire rural or wireless, I guess, rural areas. The issue with this, ironically, is it's being rolled out where? In metropolitan areas because there's more money to be made.

So that's why I think what we need to do is to write your local representatives, write your national representatives, tell them "we want some sort of support, governmental support, governmental encouragement, maybe even requirement for wiring the rural areas.

Until we have high speed everywhere, it's holding the country back. I think it's really, really important, whether it's here in Canada, whether it's in the U.S., it's Australia, anywhere in the world. This is an important issue. So, yeah, there are technologies out there, but I think it's gonna take a little nudge to make it work.