The leader of the most populous Ontario province in Canada said Monday that he is breaking a contract with the Elon Musk Starlink Internet service in response to the radical tariffs of US President Donald Trump in Canada.
A senior official of the Canadian government also said that Canada is not sure that it can avoid imminent tariffs on Tuesday as Mexico did, because it seems that the poles of objectives change more for Canada than in Mexico. The official, who spoke on anonymity condition, was not authorized to speak publicly.
Trump and Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday that her planned tariffs were waiting for a month to give time for new negotiations. The statement was confirmed by the White House.
Trump previously published on the social networks that he spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday morning and spoke with him again in the afternoon. Both Canada and Mexico had plans to impose their own tariffs in response to the actions of the United States, but Mexico is waiting for the moment.
Prohibit US companies
Ontario’s Prime Minister Doug Ford, who said he was also prohibiting from US contracts in provincial contracts, signed a Canadian $ 100 million ($ 68 million) with the Musk company in November to deliver high -speed Internet to remote residents in rural and northern Ontario.
“We will scratch the province’s contract with Starlink. Ontario will not do business with the infernal people of destroying our economy,” said Ford.
“President Trump is the only person to blame.
Ford said that the United States headquarters would lose “tens of billions of dollars” in new income as a result of Ontario’s response.
“We are simply not going to use US companies,” said Ford. “And it doesn’t matter if we are building a hospital, if we are building something, if we are building a dog booth, I want to make sure we are using ontarium steel, Canadian products, Canadian wood, ontarium wood, anything.
“I don’t care if it’s a toothpick. We need to buy in Canada and Ontario.”
Ontario and other provinces have already planned to eliminate American liquor brands from government stores. The Ontario Liquor Control Board sells almost CA $ 1 billion ($ 687 million) in wine, beer, liquors and seftzers of $ 1 billion every year, Ford said.
“Canada did not start this fight with the United States, but you better think we are ready to win it,” said Ford, who called an election for his province last week.
Ford said he wants a four -year mandate that he overcome at Trump.
“Do you want to come behind us?” asked. “I haven’t heard an American citizen say that Canada is the problem.”
Canada and Mexico ordered retaliation rates on US assets in response to radical tariffs imposed by Trump. Ford also encouraged companies to put the Canadian flag on products so that Canadians know what to buy.
“This is a tax on US citizens. That is what Donald Trump is doing to his own people,” said Ford, who described Musk as part of Trump’s team “who wants to destroy the income of families, destroy businesses .
Trump responded on Sunday, criticizing Canada’s commercial surplus with the United States and stating that without that surplus, “Canada ceases to exist as a viable country. Military protection for the people of Canada, and without rates!”
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