Affordable Internet & Digital Equity

• Bloc QuébécoisBLOC

  Supports the broadband target and wants Quebec's existing rural-broadband program (Régions branchées) to be additive to federal funding rather than substituted.

• Conservative Party of CanadaCONSERVATIVE

  Wants the CRTC stripped of pricing-regulation powers; argues facilities-based competition (more carriers building infrastructure) is the path to affordability rather than mandated wholesale rates.

• Green Party of CanadaGREEN

  Supports a publicly-owned wireless carrier, broadband as a basic legal service, and net-neutrality protections in statute (rather than CRTC policy direction alone).

• Liberal Party of CanadaLIBERAL

  Maintains the $3.225B Universal Broadband Fund target of 98% Canadian coverage by 2026. Telecom-policy review favours regulated wholesale access to last-mile fibre to encourage retail competition.

• New Democratic PartyNDP

  Wants statutory cellphone-bill caps, the creation of a publicly-owned wireless carrier, and the Universal Broadband Fund tripled with priority Indigenous-led builds.

Bills affecting this issue

• C-29Federal45-1First reading

  An Act to establish the Financial Crimes Agency and to make consequential amendments to certain Acts and regulations

  Codifies broadband universality as a federal obligation.

• C-63Federal44-1Second reading

  An Act to enact the Online Harms Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Human Rights Act and An Act respecting the mandatory reporting of Internet child pornography by persons who provide an Internet service and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts

  Online Harms Act — bigger 44-1 version (split in 45-1).