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

Fords an absolute asshole, and this is a stopped clock situation. But let’s take the win. This is a policy change in the right direction.

From a southern neighbor: sorry about the smell and the noise. We are busy shitting the bed, and we’re just getting started.

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    [+] 126 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)
  • [–] 94 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Imagine how much power his ketamine dealer has... One spiked bag could change America.

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  • [–] 65 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Good. We Canadians should stop relying on the US. Time to focus on local industries.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Cross country trade scales the economy way better than doing things locally though

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

    With a stable partner, I’d say you are correct.

    However if your partner is willing to weaponize that interdependency then the calculation changes.

    China weaponized trade and used wolf warrior diplomacy during Covid in an attempt to gain influence. Russia weaponized energy with Europe. Now Trump is having the US do the same for “reasons” with Canada.

    You’d think we would learn there is more up side to cooperation than conflict but here we are again.

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    [–] 64 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Oooh Trump’s gonna get in a fight with Canadian Trump! Get some popcorn y’all!

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Yeah, i was gonna say pp is canada trump, but on further reflection pp is more akin to mike Johnson. I guess marlaina Smith is a combo of mtg and bobo. Side note i forgot bobos name and looked it up.

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

    Lmao! I hate to admit this, but I bet "hot" would have worked as well.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    I hate to admit this, but I bet “that congressperson who gave her affair partner a sloppy handy at a children’s show” would also have worked.

    For reference, she and a man (not her husband, but a man she was there with) were kicked out of a local production of the stage musical “Beetlejuice”. She initially claimed it was because she was singing along with the musical, but footage later surfaced that showed she was giving him a handy in the middle of the audience.

    Know all of the panic about children at drag shows? Yeah, every single accusation from conservatives is a confession.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago

    This is the right thing to do. Make responses permanent, otherwise trump will just continue his idiotic game of bouncing back and forth.

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

    Feel bad for the people at Starlink. I can imagine a few astro-nerds really enjoying their work there and then some moldy bigwig rich guy thinking the world is his sims 4 just fuckes you with tweeting.

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Doug Ford is the world's biggest douche.

    But this is how you get Musk to behave.

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    [–] 29 points 2 years ago

    This is absolutely the right decision.

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

    It's frustrating that $100 million is only about 0.028760% of Elon Musk's total wealth ($347.7 billion). Let's hope more people abandon his failing companies and that other governments and big clients follow Fords lead.

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah “Oh well.” But then he cries like a baby who didn’t get a piggy back ride, and starts to sue people who won’t do business with his companies.

    Just like all these people he’s paying off and then two days later realizes he made a mistake and wants to hire them back. Just like all these tariffs they are so fast to impose and then AFTER THINKING ABOUT SHIT want to start rolling it all back. These people are legit dumb as fuck.

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    The name Ford making Elon cry again

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

    Why tf we doing starlink deals with that fucking idiot in the first place?

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

    From a consumer perspective it's a good solution for internet in remote areas and Ontario has a lot of remote areas. I used it for a couple of years when my only other option was a local wireless provider with an expensive high speed plan with advertised downloads up to 10Mbps, but actually never got anywhere near that. I'm lucky that I now have fibre and my starlink hardware is collecting dust in the shed.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ontario is a massive province and rural internet outside of a handful of areas is terrible. Satellite, esp. good, consistent satellite, is a godsend for those areas -- no one is running fiber out to a town of only 2000 bodies that's highly isolated.

    It was a reasonable choice, assuming Musk was mostly sane and not onboard with MAGA.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (22 children)

    EU citizen here, I see that Premier Doug Ford is doing good stuff, it is a good political figure in general?

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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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  • [–] 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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