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Monsef tight-lipped on rural broadband funding announcement

News | 06/05/2020 5:01 pm EDT
Rural economic development Minister Maryam Monsef appears at a press conference in Ottawa in 2018./ Photo by Andrew Meade.

Rural Economic Development Minister Maryam Monsef says “precise timelines” for announcing steps to speed up rural broadband funding are still being worked out, five weeks after saying she would “soon” announce them in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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