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.”
Fords an absolute asshole, and this is a stopped clock situation. But let’s take the win. This is a policy change in the right direction.
From a southern neighbor: sorry about the smell and the noise. We are busy shitting the bed, and we’re just getting started.
Thanks bud. it’s not our first rodeo, we’re used to the smell of bullshit.
Still, you know, when it actually gets on you it stains things.deleted by creator
Oooh Trump’s gonna get in a fight with Canadian Trump! Get some popcorn y’all!
Yeah, i was gonna say pp is canada trump, but on further reflection pp is more akin to mike Johnson. I guess marlaina Smith is a combo of mtg and bobo. Side note i forgot bobos name and looked it up.
Lmao! I hate to admit this, but I bet “hot” would have worked as well.
I mean she is not unattractive, until she speaks.
If you’re into that kind of fake tit, dead in the eyes kinda thing…which I’m not.
Boebert is the shadow land version of AOC. My apologies to Naomi Klein.
She looks like a washed up, third rate, porn star. Probably because she was pulled off some white trash casting website.
I wish that was a joke.
I hate to admit this, but I bet “that congressperson who gave her affair partner a sloppy handy at a children’s show” would also have worked.
For reference, she and a man (not her husband, but a man she was there with) were kicked out of a local production of the stage musical “Beetlejuice”. She initially claimed it was because she was singing along with the musical, but footage later surfaced that showed she was giving him a handy in the middle of the audience.
Know all of the panic about children at drag shows? Yeah, every single accusation from conservatives is a confession.
This is the right thing to do. Make responses permanent, otherwise trump will just continue his idiotic game of bouncing back and forth.
Doug Ford is the world’s biggest douche.
But this is how you get Musk to behave.
This is absolutely the right decision.
Yeah “Oh well.” But then he cries like a baby who didn’t get a piggy back ride, and starts to sue people who won’t do business with his companies.
Just like all these people he’s paying off and then two days later realizes he made a mistake and wants to hire them back. Just like all these tariffs they are so fast to impose and then AFTER THINKING ABOUT SHIT want to start rolling it all back. These people are legit dumb as fuck.
Just like all these tariffs they are so fast to impose and then AFTER THINKING ABOUT SHIT want to start rolling it all back
Honestly, I’ve started to believe that this is being done on purpose to manipulate markets so they and their buddies can loot us all some more.
Believe it. Sure, that may not be the only purpose of sowing this chaos, but it’s a nice side gig for the billionaires who scooped up stocks on Monday and Tuesday while they were “on sale”.
It’s frustrating that $100 million is only about 0.028760% of Elon Musk’s total wealth ($347.7 billion). Let’s hope more people abandon his failing companies and that other governments and big clients follow Fords lead.
I canceled my starlink after his nazi salutes, I hope a bunch more follow suit, then it could be a lot more lost reoccurring revenue for old Moscow musk
Good. Should cut ties with that asshole. He is constantly pitching ideas that are not that great on their own and can only be accomplished with subsidies.
And all this tariff threat should have repercussions. Can’t keep going back and forth, back and forth without saying enough.
I say this as an American who is disgusted with how this administration is treating our closest friends and allies.
EU citizen here, I see that Premier Doug Ford is doing good stuff, it is a good political figure in general?
Hahahahaha no, this is one of the very few odd times that I agree with him.
That being said, I come from one of the orangest (NDP), most union-ey provinces, Manitoba, so I’m a bit biased.
I’ll try to stay up to date with what this guy says, he seems interesting.
His brother was addicted to crack when he was the mayor of Toronto and then died from cancer, so that’s pretty interesting.
What’s also kind of interesting is that the current mayor of Toronto is Olivia Chow, whose husband also died of cancer and was the late, great Jack Layton, who is very worth reading about.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10825146/toronto-bike-lane-removal-plan-doug-ford/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/401-tunnel-cost-1.7464404
The guy’s an idiot. And completely carbrained.
Build your own starlink type system like the rest of the world is doing.
Hope Ford has some good lawyers on retainer… this is probably gonna get ugly, lol
Might not. I assume there’s some sort of penalty clause built into the contract, so there shouldn’t be much to sue about unless Ford tries to find a way to not pay that penalty.
Doesn’t matter, Musk will sue anyway.
That’s fine. The courts will just toss it.
