The author slightly missed the mark with the discussion around rural areas. As is common when talking about infrastructure, he's conflating rural with remote. Rural areas have excellent electricity coverage, and can easily have enough public chargers to cover needs of the population. With few to no apartment dwellers, rural areas are actually easier to electrify than city.
Remote areas (most of Nunavut in the article), don't have electrical infrastructure. Mostly they don't have people or roads either though. If we have to install the odd diesel powered charger in a remote settlement in order to roll out EVs to the rest of the country, that's still a solid win.