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.

  • Lit
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    11513 days ago

    Do it unilaterally without discussing with US.

    • @[email protected]
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      13 days ago

      Or even better: Discuss it with Ukraine, US gets no say in the deal. And if drumpf disagrees, the reply will be “you don’t want electricity.”

      • Skankhunt42
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        2413 days ago

        I actually had a good laugh at this… Then I had to login to my second account to up vote this twice.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 days ago

        Trump is “gambling with lives.” He’s “gambling with World War III.” He’s “showing major disrespect for the country, our country.”

        He should say sorry. I haven’t heard him tell us “thank you” for anything this entire time.

        • Jerkface (any/all)
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          -313 days ago

          What does that have to do with anything? There is nothing Trump can do or not do that changes the moral consequences of our actions that kill people.

        • Jerkface (any/all)
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          13 days ago

          You people are fucked up. Literally brainwashed. This is what happens when people are trained from birth to be afraid of empathy so they never have to experience the pain of others. The dichotomy here isn’t whether or not to cut off power, it’s whether or not to do it in a planned way that permits people to not actually fucking die.

          • @[email protected]
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            112 days ago

            Hospitals have their own backup generators and so do lots of schools. Communities can band together to set up shelters. If Americans choose not to save Americans from the consequences of American actions, that’s on them. Don’t believe for a second that your lecturing on empathy has any weight whatsoever. You’re preaching to the empathetic. We all just found out that there’s a limit and a breaking point to being sorry for people finding out after they fucked around.

      • @[email protected]
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        213 days ago

        The only people who are dying are those who are trying to defend their country from a mad man intent on concurring them and those who are fighting in support of that mad man’s goal. Ukraine does not want to bow down to Putin’s tyranny. Putin should leave Ukraine to the Ukrainians, then the killing can stop.