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.”

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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (11 children)

He’s a Conservative douchebag in general.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Oh. Then it looks like he is trying to clean his image or something.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    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

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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."

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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"

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    He also looks like a cop and I don't trust like that.

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