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Summary

Ontario Premier Doug Ford warned that Canada could cut electricity exports to the U.S. in retaliation for Donald Trump’s new tariffs on Canadian goods.

The U.S. imposed a 25% tariff on most Canadian imports, citing border security concerns. Ford emphasized that U.S. states like New York and Michigan rely on Canadian energy and should “feel the pain.”

Canadian officials also announced $155 billion in counter-tariffs.

If enacted, energy restrictions would likely raise prices in the U.S., escalating trade tensions between the two countries.

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[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 96 points 1 week ago

Im gonna tell you right now, as a Canadian, we do not care what colour your states are.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

But also - we invite secession!

[-] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

Secession is a nice idea, but merging into Canada is a nonstarter.

Canada is 40 million people, New York is 20 million. That kind of influx would be insane to manage. And that’s just one state…

I can only think of east/west Germany as the closes parallel and they are still merging the halves.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Let's start with something smaller - Vermont is cool, they can come over (PS Bring Bernie).

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

There is a simple solution:

Form a North American union

[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

"We can't merge states with Canada because what if we tried with ?"

Your logic here is flawless.

[-] lolrightythen@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago

Got it. The Americans who have been struggling against this shit storm are still allowed to communicate.

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 19 points 1 week ago

Yeah well the country you guys are threatening to invade is allowed to have a fucking opinion on it.

[-] lolrightythen@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago

I support that. I invite you to hate on the US government and the assholes that put it in power. But you do yourself and many like me a disservice by acting like all US citizens want this to happen.

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 15 points 1 week ago

We are not acting like all US citizens wanted this to happen, but we understand that this is happening and what you wanted at this point is not relevant. If you don't want to be lumped into the rest of your belligerent nation, do something.

[-] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

You're right. Apologies. Its been a shitty decade.

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl -1 points 1 week ago

You do yourselves a disservice by allowing this to happen.

[-] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You're right. Sorry.

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