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Broadband strategy coming before the election: rural minister

News | 06/03/2019 11:43 am EDT
Bernadette Jordan, Minister of Rural Economic Development, is interviewed by The Wire Report on May 29, 2019.

OTTAWA — The new rural economic development ministry will release the long-awaited national broadband strategy before the next election, minister Bernadette Jordan told The Wire Report in an interview at her Ottawa office.

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