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submitted 1 week ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] courageousstep@lemm.ee 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good. We Americans need to learn the lesson that, in fact, we are not, have never been, and cannot be individualists. We are dependent on our neighbors: personally, nationally, and internationally.

We also need to learn that we cannot sustain ourselves by constantly taking: taking from each other, taking from nature, and taking from the future generations. We have become a nation of consumers, not citizens, and that is morally wrong. We expect to take with no consequences, and that’s just not how Earth works.

[-] Litebit@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hopefully, this will force Krasnov Trump to put in more effort to stop americans smuggling drugs and guns into Canada.

[-] CircaV@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago

Yep, I am all for Canada calling a national emergency on all the illegal guns and drugs flowing from the US into Canada. And Canada imposing tarrifs on the US until the US stops the flow of illegal guns into Canada and manages their border. Most of our gun crime is done by illegal US guns.

[-] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago

Should have shut it off entirely

[-] k_rol@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago

I was thinking the same at first but it might be best to make them give us more money so we can pay for what they are causing.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

This also provides room for further escalation. You don't want to play every card at once just cause it makes a big splash.

[-] lostoncalantha@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Please cut the electricity off all together. -An American

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

American GDP per capita: $85,000

Canadian GDP per capita: $55,000

American Natural Resources per capita: $150,000

Canadian Natural Resources per capita: $1.1 million

And America thinks that they have been getting taken advantage of?

Quite frankly it's about damn time that Canada started moving more high value processing in-house. America has been treating us as a resource colony to siphon wealth from forever.

Time to sign trade deals with absolutely everyone else who will sign them and see how America likes it when their cheap resources start flowing elsewhere. They can fuck right off if they think they'll win a trade war.

[-] Retropunk64@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Krasnov and his cronies made up the lies about being taken advantage of to hide their true motives, driven purely by imperialism. Its a smoke cover.

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