Ottawa:
Canada’s most populous province and its economic engine Ontario on Monday announced a ban on US companies, bidding billions of dollars of government contracts, and made a deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink, which US Tariff Is in a pushback for.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on X, “Ontario will not trade with people on destroying our economy.”
“The US-based business will now lose in new revenue to tens of billions of dollars. He only has to blame President Trump.”
Ford said he was “stunned” with a Starlink signed in November to provide internet services to 15,000 homes and businesses in the remote northern parts of Ontario.
Starlink satellites were to introduce internet services at Northern Ontario starting in June.
The owner of the company, Musk, is the richest man in the world and a close advisor to US President Donald Trump, who vowed to slap 25 percent tariffs on Canadian imports starting on Tuesday.
Ontario’s liquor shops pulled us beer, liquor and spirits from shelves on Monday.
This was what many other Canadian provinces including Quebec, Nova Scotia and British Columbia were doing this.
Ontario’s government-run liquor control board is one of the world’s largest single buyers, which supply its own stores as well as local restaurants, bars and other retailers in the province.
It can sell about 1 billion dollars of US liquor, or about 3,600 products every year.
Trump on Monday spoke about the tariff with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and said in a post on his true social stage that he would speak again during the day.
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