Alcohol in the United States has been wiped out LCBO shelves, a contract between Ontario and Elon MuskThe Starlink Internet supplier has been torn apart and US companies will be prohibited from submission Prices.
At midnight on Tuesday, the major rates of the entry into force entered into force, triggering a response to the scale of Canada.
Ontario quickly put into action a series of reprisals which he almost launched a few weeks ago. First Ontario Doug Ford ordered the LCBO to wipe the American manufacturing alcohol of its shelves and catalogs. The provincial alcohol agency – considered the largest alcohol buyer in the world – put its offline website on Tuesday to withdraw American alcohol.
Ontario imports $ 965 million in alcohol per year and has 3,600 American products of 36 states on its shelves.
“As an exclusive wholesaler, American brands will no longer be available in the LCBO catalog, which means that other retailers, bars and restaurants in the province will no longer be able to restore American products,” said Ford on Tuesday afternoon. “This is a huge success for American producers.”
Ford said alcohol would be storage and sold again if and when the prices will be deleted.
An LCBO employee moves products in an LCBO store in Union Station in Toronto on Tuesday March 4, 2025.
The Canadian Press / Laura Proctor
Elsewhere, Ford said Ontario would cancel its $ 100 million contract with Musk’s Spacex Company to provide the Internet Satellite Starlink to thousands of houses in northern Ontario.
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Ford had threatened to tear the agreement during the recent electoral campaign But sold when the prices did not arrive. At the time, Musk – who became Trump’s right man – seemed not Bothené, responding “Oh well” in an article on social networks.
We do not know how much it would cost Ontario to break his agreement already made with the company of Musk, but Ford said that canceling it was a “point of principle”.
“If they go out and continue us – too bad,” said Ford. “I want to inflict as much pain as possible until we conclude an agreement.”
During an ardent fire event, he also targeted Musk, who spent part of his studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
“Isn’t it ironic that he was educated, part of his education, was Queen’s?” And he attacks the country and the province that gave him the opportunity to go to Queen’s University, “said Ford. “They should be embarrassed that he went to Queen – he should be embarrassed to attack the people who took care of him.”
The cancellation of the Starlink agreement is the first step in a major reshuffle of the government’s supply policy designed to punish the United States. Ford said that US companies would be prohibited from teaching on Ontario public contracts and said the public service would go through existing contracts “with a fine tooth comb” to see what could also be thrown.
He encouraged local governments to do the same, citing a similar decision already in place in Brampton, Ontario. Mississauga and Toronto also weighed by modifying their pricing supply rules.
“We will not accept contracts to people who allow and encourage economic attacks against our province and our country,” said Ford. “We must also be ready to dig for a long fight. We must be ready to degenerate using all the tools in our toolbox which includes supplements or even pure and simple restrictions on critical minerals and electricity that we provide in the United States. »»
Ontario’s NDP and Official Opposition Chief Marit Stiles said the prices have called for an approach “All Hands on Deck, Team Ontario” and said Ford should remember the legislative assembly as quickly as possible. Earlier Tuesday, Ford said he didn’t think he needed legislation to take action on prices.
“If the Prime Minister is good for his word, which wants an approach to the team in Ontario, it means that everyone at the table,” said Stiles, stressing that his deputies represent areas of West Ontario which could be particularly affected by prices.
“We have ideas and there are things I want to see frankly from his plan that I have not seen so far. Some of the things he said today, I agree but I want to make sure there are no more bad offers, I want to make sure that we take up the same Canadian content offers that we had before. More bad supply agreements, more contracts for American companies, so I will want to see the details of what it offers. “”
The Prime Minister also suggested that Ontario was too dependent on the United States in the past and that the province had been too slow in certain regions, including construction. He said he would use the price response to accelerate infrastructure projects in the province, in particular work on a road of all seasons to the fire ring rich in minerals in northern Ontario.
Ford said it would also impose an additional 25% supplement to electricity that the province sends to 1.5 million Americans in several states and threatened to cut power if the American prices remain placed in April.
He also threatened to oversee or cut critical mineral exports to the United States if the trade war would linger.
Ford added that he wanted to get rid of free trade barriers between the provinces, accelerate infrastructure and mineral extraction approvals and build oil and gas gas pipelines “to the east, west and north”.
Trump imposed 25% prices on Canadian goods, with a sample less than 10% on energy on Tuesday morning.
The measure has aroused concern among several industries, including the Ontario house construction sector, which said it would be confronted with prolonged economic spit.
– with Canadian press files
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