[dmix]

Tax payers are already responsible for the fees paid to cancel the contract early, but won't tell the public how much it cost. They also already paid for a test run with a first nations community in 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/spacex-deal-ontario-s...

I personally see more value in connecting poor and isolated rural communities. Plus I highly doubt a provincial government contract in Canada will be a major influence on a Elon's dumb twitter politics.

[overfeed]

> Plus I highly doubt a provincial government contract in Canada will be a major influence on a Elon's dumb twitter politics.

I don't think the decision was meant to influence, rather, it's self-defense against said "Elon's dumb Twitter politics."

Americans having challenges conceptualizing how problematic Starlink is to non-Americans: imagine the same satellite service was provided by Huawei - but helmed by Chinese Elon.

[rayiner]

Imagine Europe importing natural gas from Putin through 2027.

[overfeed]

Imagine the US buying rare earths critical for national security from China with no planned end date.

The empirical evidence that your rejoinder is a false equivalence is that the US also expunged Huawei hardware from its telecoms infrastructure.

It's much harder to subvert extractive resources, compared to frequently updated software platforms like 5G switches or internet terminals.