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Bell lobbying CRTC to cut Starlink out of government funding
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Funding might be a misleading word here. The title is technically correct, but within context.
Government has funding for increasing internet connectivity in remote areas. Some of that funding is spent on Starlink contracts. So the ask is more like to stop considering Starlink for contracts that consume government funding.
This is excluding the 100 million contract the Ontario government has with Starlink, which Ford (the premier) has said was going to cancel upon the initial announcement of tariffs, then withdrew when the tariffs didn't happen, but then never mentioned ever again despite tariff after tariff being applied to Canada, and especially Ontario considering that this province is the one hit hardest by both the metals and auto tariffs over any other province as far as I know.
Basically Ontario is hit the hardest by the actually applied tariffs, and yet our premier is giving public enemy #2 100 million in taxpayer dollars for a service that can mostly be fulfilled by local companies already.
Ford backed out of canceling Starlink in February, but as far as I can tell he cancelled for good in March.
Right. Thanks for reminding me that he has announced it. Unfortunately I can't find any information to confirm if he went through with the cancellation or not because nobody's reporting on it since that announcement.
Hopefully it was fully cancelled, but frankly I just can't trust Ford to not fold on something like this.