Fucking spineless prick.
If they didn’t want contracts cancelled they shouldn’t have threatened us. Don’t back down, cancel them anyway.
Right? It just shows they will be a threat to Canada later. Time to protect Canada by less reliance on US crap
The fact that the Starlink contact enriches a Nazi who isn’t afraid to salute in public is more than enough reason to cancel any contract we have with him.
Cancel starlink and give strong advice that renewal will require no Musk ownership when we look at it in a year.
And then don’t look at it again.
Boooo. Shut that shit down. We don’t need to be validating Elon’s space junk.
Why the hell is the government paying for a service that is directed towards individual households at a price that few households would find difficult to pay for in the first place?
This is frankly not only a waste of taxpayer money, but also a blatant attempt to buddy up with an American oligarch.
Once again, Ford is selling this province to his oligarch buddies.
I don’t think the contract has even been made public but apparently there was some stuff in there to have starlink upgrade local infrastructure. Idk why you would hire starlink for that and without the full contract it’s really hard to know wtf this contract is even about because as you said the per unit cost way exceeds just going to Costco and buying starlink.
If I understand correctly mostly for rural communities and up north one.
Yea, but that doesn’t account for the cost in the slightest. Any city is better served by getting local providers to upgrade their physical lines, leaving only rural areas to use satellite, which is only in the thousands, maybe tens of thousands of households. Even if it was to buy them all starlinks, as it was mentioned, the cost is many times that to just buying the dishes and pay for their normal fees, as I the monthly cost was only around $100 or so.
Ford was bluffing about Starlink; he was trying to show pre-election how much he stands up for Ontario.
Tariffs or not Elon Musk is enough of a reason to cancel the deal.
I knew it was way too good to be true.
Ya bunch a nimrods! The few hundreds of thousands of people who don’t live within 300 km of Toronto or the lakes need StarLink to get decent Internet. How can they watch the Leafs lose another fantastic season without good Internet? The cost of those contracts doesn’t cross the attention threshold of guys like leon. So cmon, ease up on that one.
Canada should be investing in and expanding it’s own infrastructure; not becoming more reliant on the US and it’s private enterprises owned and operated by nazis.
I don’t disagree but the CRTC’s monopolistic, colluding, communication trust corps will never spend money in those vast and remote markets. And people need to communicate.
I know people that use Starlink because they have nothing else except Xplore (formerly Xplornet), which sucks ass. I like that they have the choice to avoid Xplore. That said, I would love to see Dougie shoot himself in the foot and go through with something like this so that he loses the rural vote.