Ontario will rip up contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink, Doug Ford says [Video]

Ontario will rip up a $100-million contract with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to deliver high-speed internet to remote areas, as part of the province’s response to U.S. tariffs, Premier Doug Ford announced.

Ford, who is also in the middle of campaigning as Progressive Conservative leader in a $189-million snap election he called last week, made the announcement Monday morning as premier.

“We’ll be ripping up the province’s contract with Starlink,” Ford wrote in a statement. “Ontario won’t do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy.”

The deal was set to bring SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet system to 15,000 premises in rural and northern Ontario.

Ford also announced that Ontario will ban all American companies from provincial contracts until U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods are removed.

“Every year, the Ontario government and its agencies spend $30 billion on procurement,” he wrote.

“U.S.-based businesses …