Ontario’s premier, the leader of Canada’s most populous province, announced that effective Monday his province is charging 25% more for electricity to 1.5 million Americans in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
Ontario provides electricity to Minnesota, New York and Michigan.
“President Trump’s tariffs are a disaster for the U.S. economy. They’re making life more expensive for American families and businesses,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in a statement. “Until the threat of tariffs is gone for good, Ontario won’t back down. We’ll stand strong, use every tool in our toolkit and do whatever it takes to protect Ontario.”
Ford has said Ontario’s tariff would remain in place despite the one-month reprieve from Trump, noting a one month pause means nothing but more uncertainty.
Fuck yeah. Feel sorry for the blue guys but MI went red and I couldn’t give a flying fuck about the fate of the republican traitor filth. Am American, but we all have to face the fucking consequences and find the motivation to change shit, by any means necessary.
Good! Give it to this orange clown
Drug trafficking clown lashes out at orange rapist clown
Drug Fraud in the flesh.
Art of the Deal
So where’s Quebec in this? I would have figured they’d be trying to outdo Ontario in the FuckUS movement.
Buy the ticket, take the ride!
I have family in MI that voted for the orange turd…just waiting for this to turn into an LAMF moment for them.
As a Michigander I’d be upset if my state didn’t vote for Donald Trump. We deserve this.
I mean, I don’t think that Michigan residents bear special blame, but as a swing state, it’s a place where Trump is trying to score political points, and also a place where Canada has an incentive to target in terms of producing political impact.
Like, if the issue is that Trump does not care how unpleasant he makes things in Canada if it scores him points in a swing state, then the rational response for Canada is to make Trump actions that are unpleasant for Canada produce unpopular effects in swing states.
My state didn’t vote for Trump and I support Canada in this.
What’s good for the goose is good for the 'gander
I don’t care for Ford nor did I vote for him, but I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt on this.
Americans need to know this isn’t Canada being an asshole, this is the U.S. having an asshole in power that’s causing all this.
We know, bruh. We’d love it if the orange traitor shitcunt had a painful and debilitating aneurysm on live TV. We don’t get this bullshit treatment of Canada (and Mexico, Europe and particularly Ukraine, etc.)
I’d pay to watch that televised on TV.
12/10 would tune in for the special.
Ford’s a piece of shit, but I totally agree with him on this.
I hope there are house seats that flip as a result of this at least.
Me too, but they are gonna turn the vote suppression up to 11. 2 million mail in ballots were trashed in the presidential election.
This is just Ontario. Niagra Falls spans the US and Canada, but most of the hydroelectric power generation is in Canada.
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By the International Agreement, the Canadian power stations draw 56,500 cubic feet of water per second and the American power stations draw 32,500 cubic feet of water per second.
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The Sir Adam Beck Generating Stations and the Robert Moses Generating Station together form the largest generators of hydro electric power in North America.
However, more-broadly, aside from Ontario providing hydropower, Canada does provide a lot of energy to the US.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/mapping-us-canada-energy-relationship
Mapping the U.S.-Canada Energy Relationship
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4f1602ec-be23-4ea4-9601-0554378d408d.jpeg
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Will it have more impact than wearing a pink shirt and holding a teensy “false” sign?
Dems are anxious to know!I don’t know why you’re getting downvotes.
“Is tangible, clear, and vocal action better than silent protest that leaves the only colleague with a spine out to dry?” you ask, and people have the audacity to boo - ironically a stronger push back than wearing a polically motivated t-shirt.
It’s lemmy.
The offended seek to be offended, and here it’s first-past-the-post for downvotes.
I offended someone, and the lemmings appeared.
They’re not entitled to my humour.The offended seek to be offended, and here it’s first-past-the-post for downvotes…
Bradbury warned against catering to them as well, in Fahrenheit 451. What a long strange trip it’s been to get to this place.
