I want to congratulate my very knowledgeable colleague the member for Oshawa for walking us through the legislation that’s before us today, the Building Infrastructure Safely Act. She made some comments regarding the locate requests that are affected by this legislation, and those locate requests are other than dedicated locator requests that are related to designated broadband projects. She made some comments about this government’s track record on implementing broadband throughout Ontario.

I wondered if she wanted to elaborate a little bit more on the government’s progress in achieving its broadband goals.

I’ll just touch on the broadband issue since it has been brought up. We’ve had over a dozen projects in and around Waterloo region that have actually been funded and come forward and have been approved, and many have been completed. So it is really great, I think, when we talk about all members in this House wanting to see broadband expanded affordably across the province for everyone—it’s really great to see that there are many of those projects that have moved forward.

I did, in the spirit of bipartisanship—and it looks like we’re having a good, sort of healthy debate today. Being from North Bay, some will say it’s northern Ontario; some will say maybe it’s not. If the MPP from Mushkegowuk–James Bay was here, he’d be razzing me right now about it—oh, sorry; I can’t say that. I didn’t mean it in a negative way. Apologies, table.

But what do you see as some of the barriers? If you’re the critic for this file, what do you see as some of the things that we can work on as government, without the political rhetoric, to bring better service, in particular with the locates in northern Ontario?