To answer your question, yes, that's why there will be opportunity to connect some remote communities from which you'll get some power to do the repeaters. A design has been done to have a couple of communities feeding the line in the north of Canada. This is an occasion to feed. It could also be a military base that might be used to allocate the thing. I think it's a very interesting project.
On May 15th, 2019. See this statement in context.