Ontario’s premier, the leader of Canada’s most populous province, is now charging 25% more for electricity shipped to 1.5 million Americans.

Summary

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a 25% surcharge on electricity exports to 1.5 million Americans in Minnesota, New York, and Michigan, effective Monday, in response to Trump’s trade war.

The measure will generate CA$300,000-400,000 daily to support Ontario workers and businesses, adding about CA$100 monthly to affected American bills.

Ford threatened further increases or complete shutoff if the US escalates, despite Trump’s one-month tariff reprieve.

This action supplements Canada’s CA$30 billion in federal retaliatory tariffs on various American products.

  • Lit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 month ago

    Hopefully, this will force Krasnov Trump to put in more effort to stop americans smuggling drugs and guns into Canada.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    Lol holy shit can you imagine if orangeboi pisses the Canadians off so bad that they shut off power exports?

    I’m not gonna lie - I think the brownouts and blackouts that’d probably be caused by that would be a fantastic object lesson to a lot of people.

  • m8052@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 month ago

    Hello Canadians,

    Is this actually the brother of the mayor of Toronto that was so high he almost started a fight in the council chamber ?

    Ho and was called Canadian Trump ?

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    35·
    1 month ago

    New York is a blue state… Not sure how I feel about this. If they had given New York a pass, it may have been more effective.

    • Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Maybe consider how far to the center/right democrats actually are and let that inform your decision. Is it possible a blue state recently convened a “safety summit” for their corporate overlords in the wake of a mostly positively-received act of self defense in their state? Pass revoked.