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.

        • @[email protected]
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          513 days ago

          Ya, all of South America just out here proud of Vespucci, the pickle dealer. First thing they say landing in Tokyo for a visit. “Hello, I’m American,” they say.

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        13 days ago

        I think if you called Canadians or Mexicans “Americans” right now, they would be very offended.

        Also, USian just sounds really fucking dumb.

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          313 days ago

          Nobody would ever say it in real life. That’s how you know it’s for the terminally online smug huggers.

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          313 days ago

          Yeah I don’t know about people from other countries in N and S America, but here in Canada American means from the United States of America. I’m North American, not American.

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          112 days ago

          We’d always have been offended, just now we’re more likely to be “immediate punch to the face” offended.

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          113 days ago

          In Spanish, as far as I know, “americano” = inhabitant of the American continent, “estadounidense” = person from the US, so I don’t think Mexicans would be offended at the first, at least not in Spanish.

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        513 days ago

        If you went anywhere else in the world and said “I’m USian”, they wouldn’t know what you meant. You’d probably first say “I’m from the US”.

        “USian” sounds terrible.

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          213 days ago

          Okay, but have you considered that it sounds like I’m from an Ace Combat country if I say it?

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          112 days ago

          Times have changed, I guess. When I lived in Honduras, it was a pet peeve of folks when Americans would call themselves Americans. You’d get reminded that anyone who lives on the continent is American too.