Threat to tariff or cut off U.S. energy stays on the table as Ford heads to Washington [Video]

As Ontario Premier Doug Ford heads to Washington, D.C., for a meeting at the White House, his threat to tariff or cut off U.S. energy remains on the table and could return after the high-stakes date.

Ford and his team are set to fly in and out of the U.S. capital on Thursday for a meeting with President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick. The result of those talks could calm or reignite trade tensions.

The meeting comes after a whirlwind week in which Ontario levelled a 25 per cent surcharge on the energy it exports to the U.S. before Trump responded on Tuesday by threatening his own 50 per cent tariff on steel and aluminum.

His team called Ford’s threat to cut off power “egregious and insulting” and promised to batter Canada with economic retaliation.

Hours later, Lutnick had called Ford and invited him to the White House for a meeting the premier described …