Global News published this video item, entitled “Canada election: How are the parties planning to tackle cellphone affordability?” – below is their description.
The affordability of having a cellphone was a hot topic while on the 2019 campaign trail two years ago, but this year it hasn’t been as prominent during the election.
Nevertheless, it’s a topic that hits home for a lot of people across the country, especially as they came to rely on their phones for entertainment, for work or for health apps.
Anne Gaviola takes a look at what the federal leaders are promising and what might actually bring down your cellphone bill.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.