Their goal is profit.

If we wanted a non-profit we could lightly steer as a populace to ensure it's modern and safe while remaining its most affordable, we would have brought it in as an arms-length crown corp.

We still can, if we wanted that, but we have to understand the realization of delayed or skipped maintenance on infrastructure and the huge costs we have to support to bring it back into line publicly if we do. The gov can't half-ass anything without blowback.

Because there are not enough crowns who do not have to answer to investors in the same way as say Sasktel does.

Because they don’t actually invest the money, just pocket it

Was it Bell or Rogers who recently had a rural grant that decided to invest that money in the US instead?