Canada’s most populous province and economic engine, Ontario, announced on Monday that it would no longer allow US companies to bid on government contracts worth billions of dollars and that it would also reject Starlink’s deal in response to US tariffs.
Ontario’s premier Doug Ford said on X, “Ontario won’t do business with people who are determined to destroy our economy.”
“US-based businesses will now lose out on new revenues worth tens of billions.” They are entirely at fault with President Trump.
Ford said he was “ripping up” a Can $100 million (US $68 million) contract with Starlink, signed in November, to provide internet services to 15, 000 homes and businesses in remote northern parts of Ontario.
Beginning in June, Starlink satellites would begin beaming internet to northern Ontario.
The company’s owner, Musk, is the world’s richest man and a close adviser to US President Donald Trump, who vowed to slap 25 percent tariffs on Canadian imports starting on Tuesday.
Ontario’s liquor stores also started on Monday pulling US beer, wine and spirits off shelves.
The same thing was happening in a number of other Canadian provinces, including British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and Quebec.
The government-run Liquor Control Board of Ontario is one of the world’s largest single buyers of alcohol, supplying its own stores as well as local restaurants, bars and other retailers in the province.
It sells almost Can $1 billion worth of US alcohol, or about 3, 600 products, each year.
Trump and Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, discussed the tariffs earlier on Monday, and he announced in a statement on his Truth Social platform that they would speak again later that day.
Source: Channels TV
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