Canada or other nation states relying on private companies, especially US based and Musk owned, for critical infrastructure does seem unwise.
Plenty of other examples contradict this but comms is a fundamental component.
What’s idiotic is Canada has TeleSat which was established by the Canadian Government in 1969, although it’s private today. It’s also headquartered in Ottawa so I don’t know how the provincial government is ignorant of its existence. But this is a provincial government that has a proven record of corruption and in all likelihood was bribed by Starlink.
Have you used Telesat before?
If I was one of those 15,000 remote communities, I'd just buy it myself. Starlink is game changing technology that actually works. Politicizing it is lame.