Summary
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a 25% surcharge on electricity exports to 1.5 million Americans in Minnesota, New York, and Michigan, effective Monday, in response to Trump’s trade war.
The measure will generate CA$300,000-400,000 daily to support Ontario workers and businesses, adding about CA$100 monthly to affected American bills.
Ford threatened further increases or complete shutoff if the US escalates, despite Trump’s one-month tariff reprieve.
This action supplements Canada’s CA$30 billion in federal retaliatory tariffs on various American products.
Do 100% 200% squeeze orange man’s fucking balls
Lol holy shit can you imagine if orangeboi pisses the Canadians off so bad that they shut off power exports?
I’m not gonna lie - I think the brownouts and blackouts that’d probably be caused by that would be a fantastic object lesson to a lot of people.
We have all been hoping the power is turned off. But it looks like there is some pressure from the power people in Canada to not shut of the flow, for both monetary reasons and technical ones.
New York is a blue state… Not sure how I feel about this. If they had given New York a pass, it may have been more effective.
Maybe consider how far to the center/right democrats actually are and let that inform your decision. Is it possible a blue state recently convened a “safety summit” for their corporate overlords in the wake of a mostly positively-received act of self defense in their state? Pass revoked.
The world is not responsible for fixing US politics.
The goal is not to influence red vs blue but to show both our people and yours that we can fight back.
Trump is President in New York just as much as he is President in Kentucky. And as long as New York has not seceded, that will not change, and even if it did, it’s not a free ticket to even having trade relations with the rest of the world.
Hello Canadians,
Is this actually the brother of the mayor of Toronto that was so high he almost started a fight in the council chamber ?
Ho and was called Canadian Trump ?
Is Canadian guy fierie the new pm?
Ford is the Premier (Governor) of the Ontario province (state), which is like NYS And W. DC put together (and is across the pond from Rochester.) He is considered a dumpie leader, with no real accomplishments, and a silly approach to policy (let’s make sure that beer is affordable)- but generally an improvement on the previous corrupt/spend-thrift centrist party (even though they got some very good things done.)