Ontario slapping 25% surcharge on U.S.-bound electricity Monday, Ford says

Ontario volition complaint 25 per cent much for energy shipped to 1.5 cardinal Americans starting Monday successful effect to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, Premier Doug Ford said Thursday.

The state provides energy to Minnesota, New York and Michigan. Earlier this week, Ford warned the governors of those states astir the coming changes.

"You interaction the stove once, you get burned, you don't interaction that stove again," Ford said. "We're going to marque definite that we travel done with what we said we were going to do."

Ford said helium felt atrocious astir laying the surcharge.

"I consciousness unspeakable for the 3 governors, I person a phenomenal narration (with them)," helium said.

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He said helium spoke with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz connected Wednesday.

"All 3 governors deliberation tariffs connected their closest allies and friends is perfectly terrible," Ford said.

"And Republicans, arsenic well, down closed doors, accidental this is the worst happening that helium could do. And present I request the Republicans to travel retired and talk retired astir it. They're excessively scared."

Future commercialized threatened, Walz says

Walz, a Democrat who was Kamala Harris's moving mate successful her failed bid for the presidency, said Trump's tariffs "pose a superior threat" to aboriginal commercialized with Canada.

"But portion the president whitethorn not worth the partnerships that lend billions of dollars to our economy, Minnesota does," Walz said successful a written connection connected Wednesday.

"I americium moving intimately with Canadian enactment to assistance Minnesota get done this unnecessary and costly commercialized war."

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His bureau said the accrued costs volition beryllium "particularly acute for concern customers successful the northeastern portion of the authorities wherever vigor and proviso chains volition get much expensive."

"The caller tariffs and effect from Canada volition trim Minnesota's competitiveness with different less-impacted regions of the United States," Walz's bureau said.

Ford said determination is lone 1 idiosyncratic to blame: Trump.

"Isn't this a shame," helium said.

"This full happening with President Trump is an implicit mess. You spot uncertainty successful the markets and investments astir the U.S. and successful Canada. People are going to suffer their jobs, their pension funds that radical enactment their full lives for."

On Tuesday, Trump imposed 25 per cent tariffs connected Canadian goods and a 10 per cent levy connected energy. He announced a month-long reprieve for the car assemblage connected Wednesday.

Canada responded with 25 per cent retaliatory tariffs connected $30 cardinal worthy of American products and said tariffs connected different $125 cardinal successful goods would travel aft 3 weeks.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said earlier Thursday that it was "likely" Trump would intermission astir of the sweeping tariffs connected Canada and Mexico until April 2. Trump confirmed successful a societal media station that Mexico volition get a one-month intermission connected tariffs for astir imports, but made nary notation of tariffs connected Canada.

Later connected Thursday, according to The Associated Press, Trump signed an order that delays caller tariffs connected Canada for one month, akin to reprieve announced earlier for Mexico.

Ford said the 2 countries request to extremity the tariffs and instantly renegotiate the Canada-United States-Mexico escaped commercialized deal.

Ford pushing for tariffs to beryllium dropped

Both Ford and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau person said they volition not backmost down from retaliatory measures until each tariffs are removed.

"We person to travel done until helium drops tariffs completely," Ford said.

The premier added that Trump has miscalculated Canada's resolve.

"I've ne'er seen the patriotism moving crossed this state similar we person implicit the past mates (of) months," Ford said.

"He underestimated the resilience of the Canadian people, the spot of the Canadian people, and let's conscionable support moving guardant and combat for what's right."

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Ford said helium inactive wants to enactment with the U.S. to make the 2 astir prosperous countries successful the satellite by sharing much vigor and captious minerals.

The premier has besides threatened to unopen disconnected powerfulness wholly to the 3 U.S. states by aboriginal April if the tariffs remain.

He has besides mused astir stockpiling nickel, a mineral wide utilized by the American subject and aerospace industry.

Ontario has already ripped up a $100-million woody with Elon Musk's SpaceX to bring Starlink's high-speed net to agrarian and bluish communities and distant First Nations.

Ford has besides banned U.S. companies from bidding connected the province's $30-billion worthy of procurement contracts, and instructed the Liquor Control Board of Ontario to halt selling American products.