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.

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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.

    • @[email protected]
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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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      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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      112 days ago

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