U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed a new round of tariffs targeting Canada, Mexico and China.

Summary

Ontario Premier Doug Ford warned that Canada could cut electricity exports to the U.S. in retaliation for Donald Trump’s new tariffs on Canadian goods.

The U.S. imposed a 25% tariff on most Canadian imports, citing border security concerns. Ford emphasized that U.S. states like New York and Michigan rely on Canadian energy and should “feel the pain.”

Canadian officials also announced $155 billion in counter-tariffs.

If enacted, energy restrictions would likely raise prices in the U.S., escalating trade tensions between the two countries.

  • Null User Object@lemmy.worldEnglish
    05·
    2 days ago

    Trump enacts tariffs on Canada.

    Exactly. Trump. Not the states that voted against him. If you want to retaliate, retaliate against Trump. Make him, and the people that voted for him feel the pain.

    Look at the things he’s doing domestically. There’s nothing he and his MAGA dipshits love more than sticking it to the blue states. So, Canada doing something that predominantly hurts blue states isn’t going to hurt Trump at all. Quite the contrary, it’s going to give him huge hard-on.

    So, if your goal is to help Trump, well then carry on.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Like it or not, Trump’s actions are America’s actions now and we’ll fight back in any way we can.

      Also Canadians are pretty pissed at Americans in general right now

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Cutting off power will mean that the energy has to come from somewhere else, which means higher demand, and higher costs across multiple states, also red ones.

      And let’s not pretend those “blue states” don’t have very large numbers of maga idiots as well

      • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        2 days ago

        Washington State, here. Can confirm. Seattle and Bellingham carry the state blue. Them yokels everywhere else vote red.

        I’ve literally seen Dixie flags here in Washington. Like, how fucking dumb do you need to be?

        • Someone@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          I’m curious, is there somewhere you can see votes broken down by county, or preferably more granular than that? I remember seeing an article a month ago about one of those small Alaskan panhandle towns that relies on its bigger BC neighbour town. They were begging the BC/Canadian government to take it easy on them because they didn’t vote for this but the article immediately fact checked them with an Alaskan government stat showing that town in particular voted something like 80% for Trump. My point is, I’ve been hearing a lot from both Point Roberts and Port Angeles and I’m curious if they’re full of shit or not.

          • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            1·
            1 day ago

            Definitely not. Port Angeles has a major ferry service going back and forth to Victoria. I love that ferry ride - you often get to see grey whales on the trip, and god damn, Vicky is just one of the most beautiful cities. I love it so much. I wish I could move there.

            I’m not sure this gets granular enough. I don’t think that the upper peninsula is as blue as this map suggests, seeing as when I was there before the election, it was just littered with Trump signs. https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-washington/

            Far be it from me to suggest a Fox site, but this also breaks it down: https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/wa-county-voted-president

            Anyhow, the GOP voters will, in the words of the inimitable Ricky from Trailer Park Boys, “cut off their nose for spiderface.”