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Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will permanently cancel its $100 million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink, even if U.S. tariffs are lifted.

The decision follows Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canadian imports, which prompted Ontario to ban U.S. firms from contracts.

Ford cited Musk’s ties to Trump as a factor and said he is willing to fight potential legal fallout.

Musk previously responded to cancellation threats with a dismissive “Oh well.”

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[–] wasay@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago (18 children)

EU citizen here, I see that Premier Doug Ford is doing good stuff, it is a good political figure in general?

[–] doxxx@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 hours ago (8 children)

He’s a Conservative douchebag in general.

[–] wasay@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Oh. Then it looks like he is trying to clean his image or something.

[–] doxxx@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

He could actually be patriotic for all I know but he has tried to enrich himself and his buddies at the expense of the public before so I trust him about as far as I could throw him.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm guessing you aren't Tom Stoltman

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago

Not really, he was already insanely popular before this. Just won a third majority a week ago, which is unheard of in Ontario politics. It's more that he knows how to connect with people and the electorate is very gullible / willing to turn a blind eye.

With all this recent goodwill he'll probably end up being our prime minister at some point shudder

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