Saskatchewan also has the cheapest cell phone rates in the country

I don’t see how 51% could be a trial of anything as they’d lose control. 49% you could see how pressure from investors harms the company though and could painfully be walked back from. Terrible idea though.

Internet should be a public utility, not having access to affordable,reliable internet is one of the drivers of inequality and should not be left to corporations acting on the profit motive.

They were considering selling 49%, but the percentage is meaningless without looking at the articles, the bylaws, and resolutions. A lot of corporations make things more strict than the Bus Corp. act. You can always make things more strict, you can’t make them more lax.

In fact, some things require a “Special Resolution” which is 2/3rds.
BUT, that can mean 2/3 of the shareholders who show up, as long as enough people show up to make a quorum.
And a quorum can be as small as 1 person, again, depending on the Articles, bylaws, and resolutions.

If you feel like learning about the Saskatchewan Business Corporations act, here is it:
https://www.canlii.org/en/sk/laws/astat/ss-2021-c-6/latest/ss-2021-c-6.html

They don’t invest, they take tax payer funded subsidies and then bill us for the pleasure.

Yea well since the internet is gone to shit and corpos keep using me as a bank machine I’m seriously considering saying fuck the phone and internet. However I need some way to stay connected so we can organize the overthrow of our government. It’s the only thing keeping me online right now.

Break them up into infrastructure and ISP services. Infrastructure is a natural monopoly, they can compete over services on top of it if they want.

Why have we privatized public services? These companies should be nationalized and every executive put in jail.

What investment? We’ve pumped millions of dollars into these companies to get them to expand their networks to rural communities, and they’ve just shoved it up their ass like a cash enema. They’re definitely not spending their own money on improving services.

The only systems they’re incentivized to improve are the ones that funnel our cash into their pockets.

These fucking whale-scale welfare queens must be nationalized. They think this threat of ‘taking our ball and going home’ is going to scare people, and it probably will convince the officials already open to lobbying; but let’s be very clear, they cannot just take their business and leave. Their infrastructure is here, their labour is here, and their market is here. If they really wanna sabre rattle, stop fucking around and say “okay then, leave, and pay the newly instituted 75% gross wealth and asset tax while you abandon Canadians who MADE you what you are today. And don’t fucking come back”. CEOs think they are indestructible, but we need only look to the past to see the truth, we just need principled and willful representatives who won’t sell us out for chips. That’s a whole other problem.