At a meeting with the prime minister and other premiers, Ontario’s Doug Ford said Canada needs to be ‘ready to fight’ if Donald Trump follows through on his 25 per cent tariff threats. Ford even threatened to stop Ontario’s energy exports to the U.S. in retaliation.
Premier Doug Ford says Ontario could cut off energy to the U.S. if president-elect Donald Trump makes good on a threat to impose steep tariffs on Canadian goods.
Ford told reporters at Queen’s Park that federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will put together a list of items upon which Canada could impose retaliatory tariffs and so will the Ontario government.
“We will go to the full extent depending how far this goes. We will go to the extent of cutting off their energy, going down to Michigan, going down to New York State and over to Wisconsin. I don’t want this to happen, but …