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.

  • Jolly Platypus
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    26914 days ago

    As an American, I agree 100%. Canada needs to kick our ass. We deserve it.

    • @[email protected]
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      6314 days ago

      I agree with the sentiment but those states are all pretty blue. Trump might just let it happen to widen the divide and somehow claim that it’s punishment for not bending the knee.

      • Cruxifux
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        11514 days ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            1013 days 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.

            • @[email protected]
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              813 days ago

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

            • @[email protected]
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              212 days ago

              I agree. I think we’d be better off supporting their new independent nation[-states?] than absorbing them. Too many systemic issues and too large of a population to change overnight, not to mention all the guns. Maybe we could accept Hawaii, I think they’re far enough removed from the continental states.

              • @[email protected]
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                112 days ago

                Isn’t the balkanization of the US explicitly part of Russia’s goal, and establishment of city-states (or CityCorps) the explicit goal of the dark enlightenment types that Peter Thiel is backing?

            • @[email protected]
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              -113 days ago

              “We can’t merge states with Canada because what if we tried with <third largest state with largest city in either country>?”

              Your logic here is flawless.

        • @[email protected]
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          312 days ago

          This is a great comment.

          I think that Americans have forgotten that not everything in the world fits into US partisan politics.

          • Cruxifux
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            112 days ago

            Americans rarely think outside of terms of “America” and “not America”

        • @[email protected]
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          -813 days ago

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

          • Cruxifux
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            2513 days ago

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

            • @[email protected]
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              -713 days 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.

              • @[email protected]
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                2113 days 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.

              • Cruxifux
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                113 days ago

                You do yourselves a disservice by allowing this to happen.

      • Malle_Yeno
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        5114 days ago

        Given that Canadians don’t typically vote in American elections, I don’t see how that has anything to do with us or should affect our decision making.

        The USA is tariffing us, not just the red states.

        • @[email protected]
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          2213 days ago

          Yeah, the us is bad at thinking everyone is inside their crazy system. It does not matter to us if you state “don’t blame me I voted for Kodos”, at the end of the day you are all citizens of a belligerent nation. Your government is representing you all on the world stage, if you don’t like it do something about it.

      • @[email protected]
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        2914 days ago

        That’s some weird logic. Trump enacts tariffs on Canada,who retaliates in kind, so you’re worried about blue votes. Trump may claim that after the fact, but he’s definitely not playing chess that many moves ahead.

        The dude can barely plan a double jump with hopscotch, much less checkers.

        • Hemingways_Shotgun
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          1014 days ago

          That Ozempic chewing orange twat has never physically jumped in his life, let’s be honest.

        • Null User Object
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          -1413 days ago

          Trump enacts tariffs on Canada.

          Exactly. Trump. Not the states that voted against him. If you want to retaliate, retaliate against Trump. Make him, and the people that voted for him feel the pain.

          Look at the things he’s doing domestically. There’s nothing he and his MAGA dipshits love more than sticking it to the blue states. So, Canada doing something that predominantly hurts blue states isn’t going to hurt Trump at all. Quite the contrary, it’s going to give him huge hard-on.

          So, if your goal is to help Trump, well then carry on.

          • @[email protected]
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            1513 days ago

            Cutting off power in blue states will mean that the energy has to come from somewhere else, which means higher demand, and higher costs across multiple states, also red ones.

            And let’s not pretend those “blue states” don’t have very large numbers of maga idiots as well

            • @[email protected]
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              913 days ago

              Washington State, here. Can confirm. Seattle and Bellingham carry the state blue. Them yokels everywhere else vote red.

              I’ve literally seen Dixie flags here in Washington. Like, how fucking dumb do you need to be?

              • @[email protected]
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                112 days ago

                I’m curious, is there somewhere you can see votes broken down by county, or preferably more granular than that? I remember seeing an article a month ago about one of those small Alaskan panhandle towns that relies on its bigger BC neighbour town. They were begging the BC/Canadian government to take it easy on them because they didn’t vote for this but the article immediately fact checked them with an Alaskan government stat showing that town in particular voted something like 80% for Trump. My point is, I’ve been hearing a lot from both Point Roberts and Port Angeles and I’m curious if they’re full of shit or not.

                • @[email protected]
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                  112 days ago

                  Definitely not. Port Angeles has a major ferry service going back and forth to Victoria. I love that ferry ride - you often get to see grey whales on the trip, and god damn, Vicky is just one of the most beautiful cities. I love it so much. I wish I could move there.

                  I’m not sure this gets granular enough. I don’t think that the upper peninsula is as blue as this map suggests, seeing as when I was there before the election, it was just littered with Trump signs. https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-washington/

                  Far be it from me to suggest a Fox site, but this also breaks it down: https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/wa-county-voted-president

                  Anyhow, the GOP voters will, in the words of the inimitable Ricky from Trailer Park Boys, “cut off their nose for spiderface.”

          • @[email protected]
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            1413 days ago

            Like it or not, Trump’s actions are America’s actions now and we’ll fight back in any way we can.

            Also Canadians are pretty pissed at Americans in general right now

      • TheRealKuni
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        1013 days ago

        those states are all pretty blue.

        Minnesota is. Michigan tends to be (especially now that our districts are drawn independently), but we voted for Trump as a state. And New York is mostly red except for NYC.

        I almost want to see our power bills skyrocket in Michigan. But at the same time I know full well the dipshits who voted red (including my own family) will blame everyone else before they blame the people who might end abortion. So it won’t matter. They won’t learn. Instead we’ll all suffer because of their idiocy and they’ll continue to think that we’re winning.

        (In fact they’ll be thrilled because it will mean increased oil and natural gas production to close the gap in demand.)

        • @[email protected]
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          313 days ago

          The problem with that is trying to ramp up oil and gas production in the US is a losing proposition. Even with a friendly administration, it takes a long time and a lot of money to do it and it may not pay off.

    • Diplomjodler
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      2414 days ago

      Maybe you guys should just kick out the traitors that very obviously work for a foreign government.

      • @[email protected]
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        013 days ago

        We wanted to. Unfortunately, the corporations run the country and so we have no effective opposition party. The Democrats are as beholden to big money donors as the Mazis.