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The Canadian Province of Ontario said it would cancel a $ 100 million contract with Elon Musk Starlink in retaliation against US tariffs.
“Maybe Elon Musk can call his friend. He is part of the Trump team,” Prime Minister Doug Ford said at an event in Toronto on Monday.
The deal, agreed in November, was to help connect 15,000 households in remote parts of the most populous province in Canada.
Ford said he would “break the Province’s contract with Starlink. Ontario will not do business with people who are hell of the destruction of our economy.”
Canada started A few retained measures Since US President Donald Trump announced 25 percent of tariffs against the country on Saturday, including withdrawal of American drinks from stores and a ban on US companies from the Provincial Government contract.
Ford said that US companies would lose tens of billions of dollars every year in new contracts from Ontario.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has already announced $ 155 billion ($ 106 billion in USD) in USD tariffs.
The two leaders spoke on the phone on Sunday, but Canadian officials said their tariff response was not coordinated.
The Canadian response was to pressure the Republican legislators and other people who have the impact on Trump aiming for companies and jobs in their countries, officials said.
Former Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland suggested that Tariff’s Tariff’s cars were imposed to fight Trump’s “Bilian Friends”. But Trudeauu’s government excluded the setting of tariffs on certain brands, and officials said that the levies could only be imposed on the product categories.
Musk -ov Starlink Satellite Internet system has been accepted by many Canadians who are struggling to get cheap, reliable internet in distant locations. The company said last year that it has 400,000 active customers in Canada.
