Summary
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will permanently cancel its $100 million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink, even if U.S. tariffs are lifted.
The decision follows Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canadian imports, which prompted Ontario to ban U.S. firms from contracts.
Ford cited Musk’s ties to Trump as a factor and said he is willing to fight potential legal fallout.
Musk previously responded to cancellation threats with a dismissive “Oh well.”
Arguably not, since his platform before the tariff threat was basically to privatize the shit out of everything and screw the average Ontario taxpayer out of healthcare.
He was all about the oligarchy until they burned him. Nothing conservative about being spurned and pushing back.
Only thing I knew about him before all of this was him trying to get rid of all bike lanes in Quebec (probably a bit of an exaggeration, but he’s actively trying to make it harder to use transportation that’s not a car with reasons that boil down to feelings, so, not a lot of respect for him outside how he’s handling the tariff threats)