The Canadian government gives grants to telecoms to install fibre. And I think there is some relation to signing up end users too but I can't recall.

I thought the USG did a similar thing but maybe didn’t require the installed fibre actually be used /connected to the cabinets?

Yeah. In my particular case the utility was already paid to deploy fiber, but they did “fiber to the node” which runs fiber to the DSL station. It’s still copper from there to the house, and in my case (end of the line in a cul de sac) it’s degraded down to only 30Mbps max bandwidth.

But somehow that counts as a fiber deployment :/

Unless the local node is completely saturated, I would expect you should be able to get much in excess of that. If you're ever up at 2 am try running a speed test then.

I'd also try to rule out everything on your side, house wiring, routers, switches. Basically try to speed test it with the line they wired directly to the outside.

And upgrade any old network hardware.

Unless you're talking all they offer is 30Mbps. Then that's an ISP problem.