Candidate Jim Roberts responds

In mid-September, I emailed all Ward 4 Candidates to solicit their committment to helping the residents of Parr Boulevard in our efforts of securing a reliable, consistent high speed internet connection.

Thank you Candidate Jim Roberts for your reply:

First I would like to apologize for the length of time responding to this email. Unfortunately your email was downloaded to my other email program while I was set up my new program (outlook) and I did not notice it till lat night. You were the first email that I received and luckily for me, (not so much for you) the only email that went unnoticed.

I have been very busy personally going door to door and hope to meet as many of the voters as I can before Election Day. I will be in you area in the coming days and hope to meet with you personally.

I to have similar issues with high speed connectivity, although I do have high speed with Bell , it is not by choice but necessity. Last year I contacted Rogers Canada inquiring as to what is the requirements are for them to come into our communities and supply the homes with cable service. I included the communities, Grenfel and the Parr blvd area, the amount of homes that only have one service provider and the ones that have none. There reply was nothing short of disappointing. Pretty much thanks for the response but since we have plans in place you don’t fit them, it would be prohibitive for them to install in established communities, unless they have something such as a newer subdivision that they would be running lines to.

From the position of councillor and the ability to enable some sort of action towards getting either more choice or just the availability of high-speed connectivity, I would have to say that I am not sure of being able to have any chance of making such a promise. I will say this, that I will explore all the possible avenues that are needed to get what is best for our communities and as well I feel that in this day and age that it should be a necessity. In the strategic growth and development plans that have been adopted by council it is recommended that access to good infrastructure is a necessity to ensure good planned growth for this township and I feel that existing communities need to be brought up to speed with these plans we have for future development.

I hope this helps answer your question.

I would email you a copy of my brochure but its size restricts this, even with my high-speed.

Hopefully I will have a chance to meet you personally this coming week when going door to door in your area.

Thanks
For your email
Jim Roberts
Candidate Councillor Ward 4