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Conservatives call on Elon Musk to step in after Liberals provide loan to Ottawa-based satellite operator (www.ctvnews.ca)
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A $2.14-billion federal loan for an Ottawa-based satellite operator has Canadian politicians arguing about whether American billionaire Elon Musk poses a national security risk.

The fight involves internet connectivity in remote regions as Canada tries to live up to its promise to connect every Canadian household to high-speed internet by 2030.

A week ago, the Liberal government announced the loan to Telesat, which is launching a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites that will be able to connect the most remote areas of the country to broadband internet.

Conservative MP Michael Barrett objected to the price tag, asking Musk in a social media post how much it would cost to provide his Starlink to every Canadian household that does not have high-speed access.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Geosync does not work for anything other than we browsing were latency doesn't matter. You can't use it to work from home and its not technically broadband...so try again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Nobody claimed it's broadband. And nobody claimed they need broadband up there. Nobody is trying to remote into their tech job from the Arctic Circle.

Take your straw men home.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

The fuck are you talking about...rural Canada is not the fucking artic circle...jesus you're dense, do you think people who live there don't deserve proper Internet? Do you think people who live there can't be tech workers or people who would remote into a job?