Ottawa:
Ontario, Canada’s most populous province and its financial engine, introduced Monday a ban on US corporations bidding on tens of billions of {dollars} price of presidency contracts, and dumped a cope with Elon Musk’s Starlink in a pushback to US tariffs.
“Ontario will not do enterprise with individuals hellbent on destroying our financial system,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford mentioned on X.
“US-based companies will now lose out on tens of billions of {dollars} in new revenues. They solely have President Trump guilty.”
Ford mentioned he was “ripping up” a Can$100 million (US$68 million) contract with Starlink, signed in November, to offer web companies to fifteen,000 properties and companies in distant northern components of Ontario.
Starlink satellites had been to begin beaming web companies to northern Ontario beginning in June.
The corporate’s proprietor, Musk, is the world’s richest man and a detailed adviser to US President Donald Trump, who vowed to slap 25 % tariffs on Canadian imports beginning on Tuesday.
Ontario’s liquor shops additionally began on Monday pulling US beer, wine and spirits off cabinets.
A number of different Canadian provinces together with Quebec, Nova Scotia and British Columbia had been doing the identical.
The federal government-run Liquor Management Board of Ontario is without doubt one of the world’s largest single consumers of alcohol, supplying its personal shops in addition to native eating places, bars and different retailers within the province.
It sells virtually Can$1 billion price of US alcohol, or about 3,600 merchandise, annually.
Trump spoke earlier Monday with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau concerning the tariffs, and mentioned in a put up on his Reality Social platform they might communicate once more later within the day.
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