Ontario has officially canceled its $ 100 million contract with Starlink, but the province refuses to say how much it costs taxpayers to leave the agreement.
The Minister of Energy and Mines, Stephen Lecce, did not answer numerous questions on Wednesday about the death rate, the province will have to pay Elon Musk’s spacex.
“I can confirm that we have canceled the contract at this time, and we hope to present alternatives to the people of Ontario so that we can connect people,” Lecce said at an unrelated press conference.
The Minister of Infrastructure, Kinda Surma, announced the agreement last year to deliver high -speed Internet to 15,000 residents in rural ontarium and northern Ontario.
The agreement, which would be launched live in June, would have covered the hardware and installation costs, but not monthly rates.
It would also have included Starlink access for the first remote nations, after a promising test in 2020 in Pikangikum First Nation saw to the high -speed Internet working within 15 minutes of hardware delivery.
Spacex won the contract after a “technical and financial evaluation of multiple qualified parts” robust, transparent and competitive and fair of multiple qualified parts, “Michael Lindsay, former CEO of ontarium infrastructure, said last year.
People who promote economic attacks against Canada will not receive contracts: Ontario Premier
Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford threatened to cancel the contract in February if US tariffs on Canadian goods were imposed. He killed the agreement in March when the president of the United States, Donald Trump, continued with the tariffs.
“It’s done, it’s gone,” Ford said at that time. “We will not grant contracts to people who allow and promote economic attacks in our province … and our country.”
Musk supported Trump’s commitment to become president and was taken to Trump’s intimate circle after his inauguration in January.
Not long after that, Musk made fun of Trump’s threats to Annexar Canada.
In February, a petition signed by several hundred thousand Canadians demanded that the federal government eliminate the Canadian citizenship of Musk. Musk became Canadian citizen because his mother was born in Canada.
“Canada is not a real country,” Musk published in X, previously Twitter, at that time.
Musk and Trump since then have fallen out of each other.
The Starlink agreement canceled as part of retaliation attacks against US tariffs
Ford cancellation of the agreement was produced as part of a set of measures in retaliation for Trump tariffs.
He took out the American alcohol from the shelves of the LCBO stores in March and said that the alcohol prohibition of the United States will remain in place until Trump removes his tariffs in Canada.
Ford also prohibited American companies from making an offer in acquisition contracts worth $ 30 billion, the prizes of the province each year.
He also prohibited American companies from offering contracts related to their infrastructure plan of $ 200 billion to build roads, tunnels, transit, hospitals and prisons.
Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford presented Ontario retaliation measures against US tariffs., Including stopping US alcohol sales and breaking an agreement with Starlink by Elon Musk Starlink. Lorenda Reddekpp of CBC breaks down the details.
“We are defending Canada,” Lecce said on Wednesday.
Ford should have secured an Internet agreement for now for those in the north and rural of Ontario, said the new Democrat and official leader of the Marit Stiles opposition.
“What is Prime Minister’s plan to comply with this promise to the inhabitants of Ontario? Understanding the dollars of taxes earned with such an effort to the company of Elon Musk was never the right approach,” he said. “Months have passed and we still don’t have a plan or even a process that asks for local solutions.”
