The Morning After: Ontario cancels then un-cancels its Starlink contract over tariff trade war
After President Trump announced a 25 percent tariff on nearly all Canadian imported goods (and Canada announced its own 25 percent tariff on American imported goods), Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario — and a former supporter of President Trump — announced the Canadian territory would be “ripping up” a $100 million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink. The contract was signed in November last year.<br /> Musk, boss of Starlink and the richest man in the world, is a close confidant of Trump and has control over the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE (urgh), tasked with cost-cutting and deregulation in government.<br /> Ford believed this was enough to link Musk (and his businesses) to Trump’s tariffs. He said Ontario “won’t do business with peop [...]
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