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submitted 2 days ago by sbv@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Ontario is suspending its promise to add a 25 per cent surcharge on exports of electricity to some U.S. states, Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday afternoon.

"As you know, there's a very strong man in Canada who said he was going to charge a surcharge or tariff on electricity coming into our country. He has called and said he's not going to do that. And it would have been a very bad thing if he did. And he's not going to do that. So I respect that," Trump said.

ngl. I'm conflicted. Did Ford ease off too soon, or is this a way to reach an agreement?

cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/5421546

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[-] Titanious@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

Doug Ford is such a weak Premier. Absolute mistake that Ontario continued to let this fool (mis)manage the province. Stop giving in to the Americans, their promises are worthless.

[-] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

What agreement? Ford blinked first. Trump's tariffs are still in place. Ford showed weakness, thus jeopardizing our collective position.

[-] Dearche@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

He backed off on the promise of talks, yet Trump's tariffs came into effect as promised and while the federal government went through on their side of retaliation, Ontario caved like a hollowed out cake.

From a provincial perspective, Trump's doing everything he threatened, yet we basically folded on all of our provincial threats for the sake of having a talk. I wouldn't be surprised if the Starlink deal still hasn't been cancelled despite Ford saying he would on the tariff threats. From what I can tell, he's still saying he "will" cancel the deal, not that he has.

The US is pounding us raw, and Ontario is just taking it without complaint. WTF man.

At least the federal government went through with their retaliations.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Ford's always been a bitch. He's Trump's kind of person. He'll come out of this personally better off.

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