Ontario pausing retaliatory measures after tariffs postponed, Doug Ford says
www.cp24.com
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province is pausing a suite of retaliatory measures that it was set to begin implementing following an 11th hour postponement of U.S. tariffs.

Ford’s office made the announcement Monday and said the government is also banning other American companies from provincial contracts going forward

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  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Isnt a contract something that you get in trouble for ripping up and not paying? Like that’s the definition of a contract

    • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      What’s Elon going to do? March up there to Ontario and throw a tantrum on the steps of the capitol building? He can take them to court in Canada, but that would take years.

    • shastaxc@lemm.ee
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      11 hours ago

      If the penalty is less than the increased tarrifs then they’re still saving money

    • Master@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      Depends on the contract and the clauses. We dont know what it says or how its worded.

    • remotelove@lemmy.ca
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      7 hours ago

      This is the way. Canada should keep making these kinds of moves to hurt the oligarchs, not the country they claim to be part of.

      Musk has proven his goal is to interfere with politics on a global level, not just here in the US.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    It is interesting to see that Canadian apathy has suddenly turned into a united stand for Canada.

    I heard a 10 year old kid in the store yesterday, “Dad, can I get this? I checked , it is made in Canada”

    It sucks it has come to this.

    Doug Ford is a douche, but he is enough of a douche to not be politically correct in terms of relations with the USA.

      • boonhet@lemm.ee
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        13 hours ago

        I don’t, but that’s mostly because I like having very good Internet access and I’m European.

        If I was USian, I’d wish I was Canadian.

        • ZeroPoke@lemmy.ca
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          11 hours ago

          What’s your Internet? I’ll you mine if your tell me yours.

          I’m gigabit both directions and I could get as high as 3. I’ve heard they are testing 5 some areas. My 1gbit is around 90 of Canadian money. It’s fibre to my apt.

          • boonhet@lemm.ee
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            11 hours ago

            Your prices and speeds are far from what I hear being typical for Canada, but I’m paying 35 euros a month for 500 mbps symmetrical. Gigabit on the website is 73 euros. But that’s because I’m in an apartment built when the local monopoly was putting in fiber. Older buildings that were retrofitted later, as well as buildings that were built later, tend to have more providers available. There’s one that gives you 1 gig for 35 euros for the first year - and I know they’ll be amenable to keeping that arrangement later because you can just threaten to switch and they’ll cave. A third is giving out gigabit at 45 Euros for indefinite periods.

            Do keep in mind, Estonia is plagued by a Telia monopoly. Other EU countries tend to have cheaper prices. Romania has so much competition, gigabit up/down is like 8 euros and I don’t think they offer speeds under 300 mbps apparently.

        • TimboSlice@discuss.onlineEnglish
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          15 hours ago

          Sucks because my profession doesn’t really exist in Canada, so I can’t bring anything of value if I try to immigrate there.

          • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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            15 hours ago

            How does a profession not exist in Canada? Are you a 3rd party medical markup expert?

          • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            15 hours ago

            That’s an interesting statement. Feel free to not answer, but I’m curious what industry you’re in.

            • TimboSlice@discuss.onlineEnglish
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              15 hours ago

              I’m a Certified Surgical First Assistant. In Canada they use RNs. I guess I could get my RN, but I’d have to go back to school.

              Edit: I worded that poorly. The role exists in Canada, but the actual profession of SFA doesn’t. I could be misinformed, but that’s what I’ve been told.

                • TimboSlice@discuss.onlineEnglish
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                  15 hours ago

                  No problem. It’s pretty dumb. They created these positions (CST, CSFA, CSA, etc) and separated them from nurses so that they can pay lower and require different certifications and memberships. Typical American bullshit, all about the $$$

    • Nik282000@lemmy.ca
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      16 hours ago

      It is interesting to see that Canadian apathy has suddenly turned into a united stand for Canada.

      American (and Canadian) politicians have fucked over Canada every step of the way for a long as I can remember but it was always done with the thinnest veneer of diplomacy to cover up the absolute disregard for an entire country’s population. This is the first time that a politician has been dumb enough to fuck over not only the people of Canada but also it’s oligarchs. Canada’s ruling class has decided it’s ok to revolt against our neighbour’s bad behaviour and so it’s being spun by the news and politicians as ‘Canadian Patriotism.’

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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        15 hours ago

        Nope. You can’t let trump bully us into becoming part of the USA. If this is what it takes for Canada to grow balls I’m all for it.

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    Doug Ford is basically Julien getting out of jail and chasing Cyrus out of the trailer park.

    And I’m all for it.

  • skozzii@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    Ford is turning into a Canadian conservative which is great to see.

    Too bad the Federal leadership is Pierre Pouilivre who is trying his best to imitate Trump and US style politics, a culture war to divide us NOT conservative policies and helping people…

    Maybe this will wake up Canadian Conservatives to how toxic their party has become…

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      19 hours ago

      It’s just for election season

      He called one so suddenly so he can be like this for as little as possible

      There’s a reason PP is being so quiet

  • Grant_M@lemmy.caEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    Ontarians need to show up to the polls and vote strategic ABC to get Ford out.

  • Luci@lemmy.caEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    As much as I dislike Ford, I’m happy to see him doing his job properly for a change.

    (Vote Green.)

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caOP
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      20 hours ago

      This, in no way, makes up for Bill 212. But I’m glad to see that he’s at least united with the rest of the country on one goddamn thing.

  • rickdg@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    And because the world doesn’t make sense, TSLA stocks are up while the rest goes in the red.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      The fentanyl thing seems… what?

      Like a blatant fucking lie?

      This whole bullshit trade war is based on Trump lying. About everything.

    • Zirconium@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      Some conservative sub’s are being heavily moderated and comments are mass deleted. Some I notice the top comments gave very few upvotes and only two standing comments that agree

    • Nitchevo@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      I’ve only seen this recently myself, when the orange shit stain started mentioning trade deficits… but they seem to grasp that concept about as well as they do tariffs.

    • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      An argument I’ve seen is that the Canadian druglords are just that much better at getting drugs through the porous Canadian border without getting caught. Yeah I know it’s ridiculous but it’s so hard to fight this antilogic particularly with government data disappearing as we speak…

      • Jay@lemmy.caEnglish
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        18 hours ago

        That doesn’t make sense and isn’t even how borders work. Most countries are not concerned with what leaves but what comes in, because their laws stop at the border. The states certainly doesn’t care about all the guns leaving their country for Canada and Mexico.

    • LostWon@lemmy.ca
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      20 hours ago

      This is part of how we know it’s a cult they’ve formed. Probably for many on both a personal and a societal level, they’re getting isolated from friends and family who warn them, and will believe whatever lies they’re told by the cult leader scamming them. It will probably take some hard economic realities in their day-to-day lives for the ones who are capable to break out of the spell they’re under. And even then, there will likely be a cluster who double down repeatedly in the belief their “win” is just over the horizon, like the tragic BBBY investor cult.