Will Hi-Speed Internet Come To Dome Creek?

I remember back when Alan Rock was a Cabinet Minister of Whatever, and he promised to tie all of Canada's rural communities together with Hi-Speed Internet (better known as Broadband service.) Well, like all political promises that didn't happen and the ordinary residents of Dome Creek, B.C. still don't have a Hi-Speed Internet Service. Now the federal budget that was brought down yesterday promises $275 million for Broadband service to the residents of Canada that are still without this valuable 21st. Century service. Boy, it certainly would be wonderful if I could set up my computer out at my Dome Creek cabin and pick up a wireless signal.

Many people have asked me what I thought of the budget, anticipating that I would agree that it will pull us out of the depression that we are heading into. Not a chance. The few billion for infrastructure is a drop in the bucket. Construction companies in Alberta and B.C. could eat that up in a few months.

No, I was disappointed as I did not observe it tackling with issues such as permitting investment by the average citizen into power their homes with solar power, via the installation of solar power systems by authorized and trained technicians, whereby a homeowner could get a tax deduction, much the same as a tax deductible contribution to one's RRSP. Rather though it would be a Alternative Electrical Power Generation Tax Receipt.

This is 21st. Century technology with the hundreds of thousands of jobs that such a deduction would create - and think of the benefit to the comunties that have traditionally only done manufacturing oriented towards the Auto industry (a dinasour industry.)

And Ontario would also benefit as Ontario Hydro would not have to invest billions in new electrical generation plants, along with billions for the associated and upgrading grid distribution system.

You could look down at the roof-tops of suburbia and observe the generation capacity by way of hundred's of thousands, let alone millions of Solar Panels installed on the roof tops of suburban homes !

Your a Skeptic eh ! Well travel to Germany and observe the solar panels installed on the roof tops, or travel to Denmark and observe the industry that builds the giant windmills that are installed offshoe and provide the Danes with 40% of their electricity.

No, the budget was the same ole,same ole ! A "boring," budget, written by boring civil servants.

Will it rescue Canada - I doubt it very much ! I think the unemployment picture will continue to grow !