Ontario postpones threat to cancel Starlink deal after Canada tariffs reprieve

For anyone who blinked and missed it, Marit Stiles and Bonnie Crombie both stated on Monday morning that they were in agreement with each other on cancelling the Starlink deal.

So Doug slaps on a ball cap, gets his face in the cameras and says he’d tear up the contract IF the tariffs go through. And rogers/bell/murdoch news said or implied in their headlines that he DID tear up the contract. Headline commentators yesterday seemed convinced it's something he’d already done. Or it was his idea alone.

Now he gets to be Canada’s defender - without him actually having to talk to or (god forbid) work with any of our other elected reps during this snap election he chose to call during an international crisis.

(To my fellow Ontarians: Ignore the neverending polls. Ignore the online commentary telling you the alternatives aren't doing enough in exactly the right way. Ignore the pages of discourse on how our Democracy just isn't good enough. Doug took electoral reform away from municipalities that voted for it. Please, show up and vote with your neighbours.)

Fucking spineless prick.

If they didn't want contracts cancelled they shouldn't have threatened us. Don't back down, cancel them anyway.

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.
Right? It just shows they will be a threat to Canada later. Time to protect Canada by less reliance on US crap

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.

Boooo. Shut that shit down. We don't need to be validating Elon's space junk.

Booooooo

Ford was bluffing about Starlink; he was trying to show pre-election how much he stands up for Ontario.

We do not negotiate with terrorists.

I knew it was way too good to be true.

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.

The guy in the thumbnail is like the president of Canada or something right?

He's the premier of Ontario, our most populated province. Basically our version of a governor by USA standards. He also has more in common with Trump than not. There are a few political factors here that will make it very hard for him to win an election when the next one was scheduled, so he's pulled a snap election early as a desperate attempt to stay in power. Expect to see more of his dumb ass until we vote at the end of the month, longer if this tariff bullshit continues.

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.
No. We need a sasktel equivalent in every province.
- I recently found out about Saskatel the other day while I was looking at other Canadian telecoms... Good stuff. I agree with you, and wish other provinces followed suit.