Support Internet for All!
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Join ACORN Canada members from coast to coast in the fight for Internet for All!
It's time telecom giants stop gouging low-income Canadians! The CRTC needs to close the digital divide by ensuring low-income families have access to affordable high-speed internet. Canada has some of the highest internet costs in the world and lags behind many other countries with internet speeds. ACORN members need your support to make internet affordable for all Canadians living under the Low Income Measure.
By signing below I affirm that:
- Broadband access, like home telephone service, is essential for Canadians to get ahead.
- The CRTC must address barriers of access to home internet, including affordability. Everyone should have equal access to high speed internet, regardless of income.
- A home internet connection is necessary for important life activities, including looking for employment, completing homework, and accessing government services and forms.
- We need the Commission to mandate affordable access for all Canadians, with actual download speeds of at least 50 Mbps and 10 Mbps upload
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Most information is available online and every student needs internet at home to do work, to be creative, making videos or music or finding creative or colunteer projects and to stay in contact with friends and extended family. Especially low income people do not have the means to travel and see family, and without internet, they can only make calls which is a big disadvantage and hinders keeping family ties across the country, or in the case of immigrants, to family and friends back home.
If Estonia can do it, we can do it too.
Internet is not only used for recreation and distraction but also for watching online television from home countries or home provinces, but it is also essential for gaining knowledge and educating oneself. There are free language courses, free university lectures not only from top American universities but also now fr om some Canadian universities .
The worst impact of not having longterm sccess to internet is for youth and disabled. Disabled people often are homebound, and so are sick people. Youth is very talented with computers and those who can"t afford internet, have a huge disadvantage.
Ia person receives 500 welfare approxiately and has cheap housing, they are unable top pay around 100 for internet, Disability pay of 1000 a month would mean internet takes 10% off the bidget. With paying the lowest available market rent in Ottawa which is around 700 or 750 dollars, there is not much left for food and clothing, medication, toiletries etc. Internet is a luzury. There are lots of free used computers to be had, or some who cost around 200 dollars and that is a one time thing. But without internet one cannot even update many programs.
Please stop it from happening.