Starlink Is Caught in the Middle of Trump’s Trade War

The trade war is starting to get personal for Elon Musk. At the same time that he called President Donald Trump’s top trade adviser “dumber than a sack of bricks,” Musk stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in Canadian subsidies for his satellite internet service, Starlink. It’s been a turbulent month for Starlink and Canada. On March 4, Ontario Premier Doug Ford ripped up a Starlink contract worth $100 million. Quebec, which has spent $130 million to provide citizens discounted Starlink service for the past three years, told the Financial Times that it won’t renew the contract when it expires in June. And on April 3, Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai said he would follow suit, canceling as many Starlink contracts as possible. “Mr. Musk is part of a threat to our sovereignty as long as he's aiding and abetting President Trump,” Geoff White, the executive director of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, told CNET. “I think we need to take a serious look at whether or not we want this ... Read full article.