Ottawa:
Ontario, the most populous province of Canada and its economic engine, announced on Monday a prohibition of US companies that offer tens of billions of dollars in government contracts, and abandoned an agreement with Elon Musk’s Starlink in a rejection of American tariffs.
“Ontario will not do business with the infernal people of destroying our economy,” said Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford, in X.
“Companies based in the United States will now lose tens of billions of dollars in new income. They just have to blame President Trump.”
Ford said he was “breaking” a tin contract of $ 100 million (US $ 68 million) with Starlink, signed in November, to provide internet services to 15,000 homes and businesses in remote parts of northern Ontario.
Starlink satellites would begin to increase Internet services to northern Ontario as of June.
The company’s owner, Musk, is the richest man in the world and an advisor close to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who promised to slapped the rates of 25 percent on Canadian imports that begin on Tuesday.
Ontario liquor shops also began on Monday taking beer, wine and lighter from the shelves.
Several other Canadian provinces, including Quebec, New Scotland and British Columbia, were doing the same.
The Ontario Liquor Control Board, administered by the Government, is one of the largest alcohol buyers in the world, which provides its own stores, as well as in local restaurants, bars and other retailers in the province.
Sale can almost $ 1 billion in American alcohol, or around 3,600 products, each year.
Trump spoke early on Monday with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the rates, and said in a publication about his social platform of truth that they would speak again later in the day.
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