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.

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    I’m Canadian and I don’t think we should be doing this in the middle of winter. Plus it’s going to affect blue states, which will only make the MAGA fuckface idiots glad that the libs are being owned.

    We should repeal US IP protection laws instead and cut out their potash. Make technofeudalists and rural conservatives scream.

    • Saffire@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      It’s not the middle of winter, it’s March. It’s spring time where I live in Canada, it ought to be warmer down south in the USA.

    • redlemace@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      However much I’d like to see it happen, I do see problems in cutting them off too. It’s not easy to cut power on such scale, but if possible, i’d be in favor of intermittent outages. Random on/off periods of random length. The only thing that sucks much more than no power is unreliable/unpredictable power.