British Columbia's social democratic NDP government quickly stepped in with their own bus service to serve the north though I'm not sure if it's intended to be permanent.
It could make sense for the government to step in here with a publicly owned transit service if there is a real market failure here in that it's not at all profitable to serve the sparsely populated North.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-northern-...
It could make sense for the government to step in here with a publicly owned transit service if there is a real market failure here in that it's not at all profitable to serve the sparsely populated North.