In response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the leader of Canada’s most populous province threatened to cut energy to the United States with “a smile on my face,” adding that “they need to feel the pain.”
Ontario Premier Doug Ford doubled down on his threats during a mining convention Monday.
“If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything – including cut off their energy with a smile on my face,” he vowed Monday, the Toronto Sun reported.
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“They rely on our energy, they need to feel the pain. They want to come at us hard, we’re going to come back twice as hard,” he added.
The U.S. is a major customer of Canadian electricity, the report states, with New York, Michigan and Minnesota being Ontario’s three biggest customers of domestically-produced power.
In 2022, Canada’s revenue for electricity exportsto the U.S. reached a record high of $5.8 …