Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he is cancelling a nearly $100 million contract with U.S. satellite internet provider Starlink as part of the province’s response to U.S. tariffs, as well as banning all American companies from future provincial contracts.
“We’ll be ripping up the province’s contract with Starlink. Ontario won’t do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy,” Ford wrote in a post on the social media platform X on Feb. 3.
In addition to ending the contract with Starlink, Ford said Ontario is banning American companies from provincial contracts. He noted that the Ontario government and its agencies collectively spend $30 billion annually on procurement, in addition to a $200 billion plan for infrastructure development….