Just yesterday, we learned our overweight “Tough Guy” Doug Ford slapped the Empire so hard that Donald Trump will come begging down on his knees for electricity… Yeah, right.
Ontario slaps 25% levy on U.S.-bound electricity in latest trade war volley, warns it could go higher
Canada slaps 25% Electricity Tariffs on New York, Minnesota, Michigan
Ontario is imposing a 25 per cent surcharge on all US-bound electricity as part of its retaliatory measures against US President Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods.
This surcharge will affect electricity sales for 1.5 million homes and businesses across Michigan, Minnesota and New York, the Ontario government said. In total, it could cost up to $400,000 per day.
The new levy took effect Monday and will add about $10 per megawatt-hour to the cost of power heading south, the province says.
The Tough Talk
“If the United States escalates, I will not hesitate to cut off electricity entirely.” Canada, Ontario Premier Doug Ford at a press conference said he would move forward with a 25% surcharge on electricity exports to three US states starting Monday.
“If the United States escalates, I will not hesitate to cut off electricity entirely.” Canada, Ontario Premier Doug Ford at a press conference said he would move forward with a 25% surcharge on electricity exports to three US states starting Monday.
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And just hours later today, we just learned the “Tough Guy” has turned into a “Chicken Bro” as Ford intermediately announced the electricity surcharge will be suspended until further notice… right after Trump threatens to raise Tariffs on Steel & Aluminum to a whopping 50% and beyond!
Trump Is Fuming!
President Trump says all tariffs on Canada will “disappear” if they become our 51st state. U.S. to impose 50% tariffs on Canadian steel & aluminum starting tomorrow in response to Ontario’s 25% electricity tariff.
Trump has just said: “Canada is a Tariff abuser, and always has been, but the United States is not going to be subsidizing Canada any longer. We don’t need your Cars, we don’t need your Lumber, we don’t your Energy, and very soon, you will find that out.”
Canada backs down from 25% electricity surcharge after Trump threats
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday he had agreed to suspend a 25% surcharge on electricity imports into the U.S. after conversing with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in the wake of President Donald Trump’s threats to hike steel and aluminum tariffs on the nation to 50%.
In a statement issued with Lutnick and posted on X, Ford said he and Lutnick would now be meeting Thursday alongside the United States Trade Representative to discuss a renewal of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade act ahead of Trump’s self-imposed April 2 “reciprocal tariff deadline.”
“In response, Ontario agreed to suspend its 25 per cent surcharge on exports of electricity to Michigan, New York and Minnesota,” Ford said.
In subsequent remarks at the White House Tuesday afternoon, Trump said: “I’ll let you know” if 50% tariffs on Canada are going into effect…
Major stock indexes, which had plunged on Trump’s earlier tariffs threat, rallied into the green upon the suspension announcement.
Trump had posted to his Truth Social platform earlier Tuesday that steel and aluminum tariffs would go from 25% to 50% starting Wednesday in response to the province of Ontario placing a 25% tariff on electricity coming into the United States.
Trump added that he would be declaring a “national emergency” for the three states Ontario has targeted so that the tariffs could go into effect.
Trump also called on Canada to drop its duties on American dairy products and threatened to “substantially increase” tariffs on cars imported into the U.S. if Canada did not drop “other egregious, long time tariffs.”
The auto tariffs, Trump warned, without citing evidence, “essentially, permanently shut down the automobile manufacturing business in Canada.”
Trump then doubled down on some of his recent rhetoric about making Canada part of the U.S., though he added it would get to keep its national anthem.
So much for our “Tough Guy”… “Chickens are Chickens, Chickens gonna Cluck”.
Oh, Canada!
In a Truth Social post Monday night, Trump reacted to the surcharge by calling Canada a “tariff abuser,” reiterating that the U.S. doesn’t need Canada’s resources and “is not going to be subsidizing Canada any longer.”
“Because our Tariffs are reciprocal, we’ll just get it all back on April 2,” he said.
At the same time, Ford urged other provinces – in particular Alberta, which sends about four million barrels of oil per day to the United States – to look at leveraging their energy resources.
“A message to Premier (Danielle) Smith: one day, I think you might have to use that trump card and give approval for an export tax,” he said.
“You want to talk about a trump card? That will instantly change the game, instantly, when the Americans – and I know the Americans – all of a sudden their gas prices go up 90 (cents) to $1 a gallon, they will lose their minds. So we need to at least put that in the window.”
Smith quickly shot that down.
“Alberta will never agree to such an absurd and self destructive idea,” she wrote in a post on social media.
“It’s not an option. I’m not going to agree to do something that will cost hundreds of thousands of Albertans (and Canadians) their jobs almost overnight. That would be like placing export tariffs on Ontario auto parts. Also a bad idea.”
Oops… It sounds like Danielle Smith doesn’t see Doug Ford as a “Tough Guy”, who has just been proven he’s after all a “Chicken Bro”… Yes, not even “Canada Goose”.
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