It's probably just a few ppl dumping around there avg cost - or those who were able to get in at ridiculously low levels.

Otherwise, Michael Gravelle's babbling on TVO could have spooked a few others along with Yesno's and Rae's comments.

Alan Coutts seemed serious but on point. All playing their own part with their own interests. It's pretty clear where the bottleneck is.

The FNs want what a big city has - and nothing else will happen until they get what they want. That's what is sounded like to me.

Most cottage country, even NEAR the Muskokas, don't have High speed internet via fibre.

Perhaps it is just negotiating but their dream of being in the wilderness and living a traditional lifestyle is a farce when it comes to big city demands of jobs and amenities at their front door.

It's the bush.

It doesn't matter if you're just outside the GTA, Barry's Bay, Simcoe County, Sudbury, TBay or anywhere else... if you're in the bush... you're in the bush. It's obviously eaiser to get connected depending on proximity to denser infrastructure but the price is still prohibitive even for a cottage association.

Even some SOUTHERN rural residential neighbourhoods are just starting to get high speed internet... which isn't really high speed of the city.

What does Pickle Lake have? A road. Do there kids have to go to Thunder Bay for pretty much everything else too? You betcha. There's no discrimination beyond a road. Yet ice roads have always been a waste of money for the sake of a few too.

Build the roads as an investment, sure, but the ancestral cottage subsistence lifestyle isn't there to be oxymoronic. Or, is it?

I bet you they don't even compost or have gardens.