Leader of the Ontario Progressive Party Doug Ford has put its short -term promise to cancel a $ 100 million contract with Elon Musk Starlink on Ice after US President Donald Trump suspended his pricing threat.
In a press release on Monday morning, Ford said that the Ontario government “tears up” a contract signed to provide high -speed internet to northern and rural communities.
This decision was part of the PC chief’s field for immediate measures against American prices, which were to terror on Tuesday. He also explained how he would manage Trump’s threat and prices if he was re -elected.
Late Monday, however, the cancellation of the Starlink agreement was interrupted.
During the afternoon, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the prices had been interrupted for 30 days, a break designed to allow his government and Trump to reach an agreement on questions like the border.
Faced with the break, the Ford team said Ontario’s reprisal measures would also be canceled.
When asked if it meant that the Starlink contract would take place by Global News, a progressive spokesman replied: “Yes”.
American alcohol will no longer be withdrawn from the shelves of Ontario alcohol stores. The Starlink contract would still be canceled and alcohol deleted if the prices come into force, according to PCs.
Ford initially declared that the contract would be canceled in a publication on social networks Monday morning listing the ways in which Ontario would meet the American prices.
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He referred to the plans that the federal government had for reprisals and his own decision to withdraw American alcohol from the LCBO shelves. Starlink was also configured to be canceled.
“We will tear the province’s contract with Starlink,” he wrote. “Ontario will not do business with people who have the destruction of our economy.”
In November 2024, the government of Ford signed the agreement With Starlink, he could manage a satellite internet program for around 15,000 households and businesses from June.
Explaining the planned cancellation on Monday, Ford said: “We did not pay a penny” to Starlink, adding “we have a lot” if the withdrawal of the contract was challenged because “he broke a trade agreement”.
“I will not support someone who is hell to destroy our province, to destroy the families of people, to remove jobs from them,” he said.
“We have finished with that. We have never started this fight, but we are going to win this fight. »»
When the cancellation was announced, Musk, the richest man in the world, claimed to be disturbed.
“Oh well,” he said in an article on his social media platform, X.
Then, before 5 p.m., the pricing threat was interrupted and the Ford team said that it would not set up reprisal measures.
The calls remain to cancel the project
Ontario Liberals, however, still demand that the contract be canceled and could tear it away if they form the government after the early elections in Ontario.
Ontario Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie qualified the Starlink contract as a “darling” agreement and asked that the contract be rebuilt because of Musk himself and the American president.
Musk took the spotlight during the American electoral campaign, advising Trump, promoting his content on his social media platform X and appearing with him. He collected $ 200 million for Trump’s campaign and attended the president’s swearing ceremony.
Musk also occasionally tweeted on Canadian policy. He congratulated the announcement of Trudeau’s resignation on January 6 and rejected him online by echoing Trump’s conversation that Canada becomes an American state.
When the contract was briefly canceled, Crombie welcomed this decision in a post on X.
“Happy that it finally happens,” she wrote.
Faced with Ford’s decision not to tear the contract – as long as the prices are not leveled – the Liberals said they were still thinking that it should be rebuilt. Crombie also said that the Ford government should not have signed the agreement in the first place.
Ford had defended the contract and declared on January 24 – a few days before the Ontario electoral call – that he was part of his government’s promise to deliver the Internet at high speed to the Ontario rural people.
Ontario is in the middle of an electoral campaign at the start of winter.
Ford sparked the Snap survey last week, dissolving the legislature and saying that it needed a new mandate of voters to make potentially difficult economic choices in the face of the American prices.
The NPD, the Liberals and the Greens of Ontario, expose their own visions to fight against Trump and the economy, as well as to raise questions about the time of the elections.
Voters went to the polls on February 27.
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