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Re: Why does Canadian internet access suck so much?

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From: Liberals are vermin
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:00
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On Feb 4, 5:50 am, zeez <blinkingblyth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 1, 3:03 pm, Lil Abner <@Daisey.Mae> wrote:
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> >http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1352559/Canadians-forc...
>
> I've always wondered why Canadians have it about as bad as Austraiia
> when it comes to net access. Australia is phy$icaly isolated so it
> somewhat understandable for them but Canada?

Because the companies given huge sums by liberal (and democrat in the
U.S.) governments for infrastructure improvements pocketed the cash,
did almost zero improvements and as a result, we fell from number #1
in the early 1990s to around #15 in-terms of internet infrastructure
and cost.
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From: Liberals are vermin <rander3127@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,alt.politics,can.politics
Subject: Re: Why does Canadian internet access suck so much?
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