The Quebec government is investing $400 million in Ottawa-based Telesat as the company plans to centre its Lightspeed program in Gatineau, Que. The goal of the project is to provide broadband internet in rural and remote regions via Telesat's Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network. Telesat president and CEO Dan Goldberg says the company expects to announce the precise locations of the new facilities in the coming months. (Idil Mussa/CBC)Economic generatorThe project is expected to create 320 skilled jobs and transform Gatineau into a technology and cybersecurity hub. "It could become a spearhead perhaps a northern Silicon Valley," Stéphane Bisson, interim president of the Gatineau Chamber of Commerce, told Radio-Canada.

Source: CBC News February 19, 2021 18:45 UTC