Ontario slaps 25% tax increase on electricity exports to US in response to Trump's trade war
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Ontario’s premier, the leader of Canada’s most populous province, is now charging 25% more for electricity shipped to 1.5 million Americans.

Summary

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a 25% surcharge on electricity exports to 1.5 million Americans in Minnesota, New York, and Michigan, effective Monday, in response to Trump’s trade war.

The measure will generate CA$300,000-400,000 daily to support Ontario workers and businesses, adding about CA$100 monthly to affected American bills.

Ford threatened further increases or complete shutoff if the US escalates, despite Trump’s one-month tariff reprieve.

This action supplements Canada’s CA$30 billion in federal retaliatory tariffs on various American products.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    15 hours ago

    Lol holy shit can you imagine if orangeboi pisses the Canadians off so bad that they shut off power exports?

    I’m not gonna lie - I think the brownouts and blackouts that’d probably be caused by that would be a fantastic object lesson to a lot of people.

    • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      15 hours ago

      We have all been hoping the power is turned off. But it looks like there is some pressure from the power people in Canada to not shut of the flow, for both monetary reasons and technical ones.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        Yeah - power infra can be tricky, and big regional systems like that tend to get kinda cranky when you just throw the breaker and drop a large fraction of the load without some pretty careful ramping.