All government offices have websites and often do not hand out forms any more like CIC e.g. so people are having a big problem getting their forms. They have to access community social worker services if they are not used to working with Internet.


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.

The disparity between the “haves” and “have nots” is getting bigger and bigger. It affects every aspect of our lives – food, medical, education, etc. Access to the internet is one more area where big corporations are being allowed to block out people with less money from having access by raising rates and creating tiered systems of access. This is wrong.


Please stop it from happening.

E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G is web based now. Not having reliable and affordable access creates regional economic disparities. Which exacerbate the fact that many people living away from city centers are from first nations communities, that those who are poor and people of colour and women, as well as their children. Saying yes to affordable and reliable internet for all, is saying no to racism and patriarchy.

everybody should have access to an affordable internet

Everyone should have access to a world where internet technology is available not based on who can afford it. The internet is an integral part of a work and home information system. It is taken for granted by many, but for disabilities or sight impaired, the internet with its programs are an opening to a new world.

Equitable access to the internet in Canada will lessen the gap between low income people in Canada and everyone else. It will lead to more diversity in the cultural discussion instead of it being dominated by middle and upper class Canadians. Unaffordable internet access effectively shuts down the voices of marginalized peoples in Canada who deserve to be heard.

This is something that I’ve always discussed with others … why not wi-fi in subsidized housing, etc. Maybe $10/month included in the rent, etc.

The Internet is a vital resource for my childen to acquire knowledge which in turn aids in homework assignments and in class work.

It is crutial for our life these days.