Canada slaps a 25% tariff on electricity exports to the USA!

[thewayne]

Elbows up, Canada!

New York, Michigan, and Minnesota are being hit with an export tariff on power from Canada from Ontario premier Doug Ford, in an attempt to bring the American President to the negotiating table to get him to stop this idiotic talk about tariffs and talk about making Canada the 51st state of the USA.

While I'm no fan of any Canadian politician named Ford, I think this is a great move! He is further threatening to completely stop exporting power if further threats are made against Canada. The move will generate approximately $300-400,000CA per day for Canada, which will be a nice little bonus.

Part of the Orange Dumpsterfire's justification of his moves against Canada is the "flow of fentanyl across the border", which last year, amounted to something on the order of 46 lbs. There's probably more manufactured in the USA than came across the border.

https://gizmodo.com/canada-slaps-25-tariff-on-electricity-to-americans-in-three-states-2000573857

Comments

[silveradept]

Good on Canada for putting on pressure and not letting up on it until the stupid moves are retracted. Not great for those three states, of course, but you use the levers that you have available to you. And maybe those three states can find a way through to someone and explain to them in tiny words how much this hurts people who would otherwise be supporting this administration.