Summary
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will permanently cancel its $100 million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink, even if U.S. tariffs are lifted.
The decision follows Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canadian imports, which prompted Ontario to ban U.S. firms from contracts.
Ford cited Musk’s ties to Trump as a factor and said he is willing to fight potential legal fallout.
Musk previously responded to cancellation threats with a dismissive “Oh well.”
EU citizen here, I see that Premier Doug Ford is doing good stuff, it is a good political figure in general?
He’s a Conservative douchebag in general.
Oh. Then it looks like he is trying to clean his image or something.
He could actually be patriotic for all I know but he has tried to enrich himself and his buddies at the expense of the public before so I trust him about as far as I could throw him.
I’m guessing you aren’t Tom Stoltman
Not really, he was already insanely popular before this. Just won a third majority a week ago, which is unheard of in Ontario politics. It’s more that he knows how to connect with people and the electorate is very gullible / willing to turn a blind eye.
With all this recent goodwill he’ll probably end up being our prime minister at some point shudder
Even conservatives have principles, at least they used to, getting less and less popular with that crowd though. Centrist liberals however refuse to have principles because “that’s taking sides.”
Doug Ford does not have principles. He’s in the right on this one, this time, but was actively trying to convince his base he was a Canadian Trump until the tariffs looked to annihilate his province financially.
As someone else said, “broken clock moment”
He also looks like a cop and I don’t trust like that.
Hey there I look like a cop and there’s not much I can do about it as a bald white guy. I hate it actually. I walked into a head shop recently and was greeted “Hello Officer”.
Funny, because him and his brother were in the illegal drug business.
Hahahahaha no, this is one of the very few odd times that I agree with him.
That being said, I come from one of the orangest (NDP), most union-ey provinces, Manitoba, so I’m a bit biased.
I’ll try to stay up to date with what this guy says, he seems interesting.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10825146/toronto-bike-lane-removal-plan-doug-ford/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/401-tunnel-cost-1.7464404
The guy’s an idiot. And completely carbrained.
His brother was addicted to crack when he was the mayor of Toronto and then died from cancer, so that’s pretty interesting.
What’s also kind of interesting is that the current mayor of Toronto is Olivia Chow, whose husband also died of cancer and was the late, great Jack Layton, who is very worth reading about.
That’s one way to put it.
From what I’ve understood he’s a conservative populist. So interpret that however you want.
Well, somehow he is doing his part about being “conservative”.
It’s simply that this is a Canada vs the US thing, not a left vs right thing.
Ford is a meat-headed bully, which just happens to come in handy against another meat-headed bully.
Arguably not, since his platform before the tariff threat was basically to privatize the shit out of everything and screw the average Ontario taxpayer out of healthcare.
He was all about the oligarchy until they burned him. Nothing conservative about being spurned and pushing back.