Last week they started laying cable down my street, so it seems pretty soon I'll be able to join the modern world.
Hell, my company has several branch locations which are relegated to point-to-point wireless links in the sub-Mb range.
Their only broadband option is LTE (and data prices in Canada are through the roof) or satellite (also expensive).
From what they're telling me, people from the area formed a co-op and got government funding to lay fiber. Except now that it's happening, incumbent telecomms also want a piece of the pie, doing everything in their power to lobby, slow things down through the CRTC and give them time to put their own systems in place before the co-op.
We have organizations like Internet Society Canada (https://internetsociety.ca/) that are aiming to help change that, but it's an uphill battle.