Ontario Premier Doug Ford has reiterated that he is open to cutting off energy exports to the United States, as the country prepared to place 25 percent tariffs on Canada.
“If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything, including cut off their energy with a smile on my face,” Ford told reporters in Toronto on March 3.
“Out east, they rely on our energy. They need to feel the pain. They want to come at us hard, we’re going to come back twice as hard.”
U.S. President Donald Trump said on March 3 that 25 percent tariffs will be levied against Canada and Mexico beginning on March 4, and that there is “no room” for last-minute negotiations to prevent them from being implemented. In justifying the tariffs, Trump said there was still “vast amounts of fentanyl” coming into the United States from the two countries….