About 200 public Internet sites could be unplugged in April if Ottawa doesn’t come through with more money, a legislature committee heard Tuesday.

Eric Stackhouse, chairman of the provincial Community Access Program association, said the 79 sites located in libraries could survive offering limited service, but the rest would be gone.

"This is the little program that could," Mr. Stackhouse told MLAs. "But it’s on life-support."

He gave them a list of stories highlighting the program’s success and value. At a Bedford site, a man with cerebral palsy learned how to use software that allowed the computer to voice what he typed; in Yarmouth, more than 40 small-business people and citizens learned simple accounting; and in places like Meat Cove and Upper Big Tracadie, young people found jobs at the sites when there were few options elsewhere...

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