0 comments SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says Canada-wide coverage for his company’s Starlink high-speed internet service wouldn’t be as costly as you might expect. On X (Twitter), Conservative MP Michael Barrett responded to news that the Liberal government had announced a $2.14-billion loan to Telesat to help boost the Ottawa-based communications company’s low Earth orbit satellite reception. According to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the deal is “fundamentally about making sure that Canadians and people in more distant communities, in smaller northern communities and in remote parts of the world can be connected to the transformation and the progress that the world is seeing at increasingly destabilizing speeds.” In response, Barrett asked Musk on X how much it would cost to provide Starlink “to every Canadian household that doesn’t have high speed?” Quoting Barrett, Musk said it would cost “less than half” of the $2.14 billion that the Canadian government is spending on Telesat. Less than half that amount https://t.co/tCS9ktUNuO