Cancelling the deal does leave 15,000 homes in northern Ontario which had been promised high-speed internet without it.
$6,666 per household doesn't seem like that good of a deal to me, especially since it would still be like 100$ minimum per household per month for internet, for a company that is out of country as well. I'm a little surprised they wanted to in the first place... just throw that 100M into infrastructure. Like sure it won't go as far but, in the long run, it is more cost effective and allows for domestic business, where it is just 100M down the drain investing into a US based company giving it pretty hefty sway. Like what would be the contingency plan for if starlink had decided that Ontario wasn't worth covering anymore? like sure there was likely some form of fee involved but, you would be back to square one + being out the 100M