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Summary

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will permanently cancel its $100 million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink, even if U.S. tariffs are lifted.

The decision follows Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canadian imports, which prompted Ontario to ban U.S. firms from contracts.

Ford cited Musk’s ties to Trump as a factor and said he is willing to fight potential legal fallout.

Musk previously responded to cancellation threats with a dismissive “Oh well.”

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 164 points 1 month ago

Fords an absolute asshole, and this is a stopped clock situation. But let’s take the win. This is a policy change in the right direction.

From a southern neighbor: sorry about the smell and the noise. We are busy shitting the bed, and we’re just getting started.

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

Thanks bud. it's not our first rodeo, we're used to the smell of bullshit.
Still, you know, when it actually gets on you it stains things.

[-] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

Fords an absolute asshole,

and he is OUR asshole, for now (no telling if/when he will flip-flop, let's hope he sticks to it)

[-] Daelsky@lemmy.ca 67 points 1 month ago

Good. We Canadians should stop relying on the US. Time to focus on local industries.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago

Cross country trade scales the economy way better than doing things locally though

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[-] d00phy@lemmy.world 62 points 1 month ago

Oooh Trump’s gonna get in a fight with Canadian Trump! Get some popcorn y’all!

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago

Yeah, i was gonna say pp is canada trump, but on further reflection pp is more akin to mike Johnson. I guess marlaina Smith is a combo of mtg and bobo. Side note i forgot bobos name and looked it up.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Lmao! I hate to admit this, but I bet "hot" would have worked as well.

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I mean she is not unattractive, until she speaks.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

If you're into that kind of fake tit, dead in the eyes kinda thing...which I'm not.

Boebert is the shadow land version of AOC. My apologies to Naomi Klein.

[-] prole 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

She looks like a washed up, third rate, porn star. Probably because she was pulled off some white trash casting website.

I wish that was a joke.

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I hate to admit this, but I bet “that congressperson who gave her affair partner a sloppy handy at a children’s show” would also have worked.

For reference, she and a man (not her husband, but a man she was there with) were kicked out of a local production of the stage musical “Beetlejuice”. She initially claimed it was because she was singing along with the musical, but footage later surfaced that showed she was giving him a handy in the middle of the audience.

Know all of the panic about children at drag shows? Yeah, every single accusation from conservatives is a confession.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Id hate fuck the hell out of her just like Ann Coulter decades ago

[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago

This is the right thing to do. Make responses permanent, otherwise trump will just continue his idiotic game of bouncing back and forth.

[-] DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 43 points 1 month ago

Feel bad for the people at Starlink. I can imagine a few astro-nerds really enjoying their work there and then some moldy bigwig rich guy thinking the world is his sims 4 just fuckes you with tweeting.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 month ago

Don't. The tech world has been aware that Musk is a piece of shit for more than a decade.

Anyone working for a Musk company approves of his craziness.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 month ago

Or is stranded there on a H1B visa. Musk likes them both fanatical and vulnerable.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Eh, idk. I'm sure there's smart people doing cool things at Starlink, but the actual product itself is basically a brute force approach to Internet access with a ton of downsides

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Doug Ford is the world's biggest douche.

But this is how you get Musk to behave.

[-] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 16 points 1 month ago

Doug Ford is the world’s biggest douche.

Interesting choice of words given this world has Trump and Musk, amongst others …

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

It's true.

Lots of high-profile douchebags in the world today.

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

This is absolutely the right decision.

[-] Substance_P@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

It's frustrating that $100 million is only about 0.028760% of Elon Musk's total wealth ($347.7 billion). Let's hope more people abandon his failing companies and that other governments and big clients follow Fords lead.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

I canceled my starlink after his nazi salutes, I hope a bunch more follow suit, then it could be a lot more lost reoccurring revenue for old Moscow musk

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[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Yeah “Oh well.” But then he cries like a baby who didn’t get a piggy back ride, and starts to sue people who won’t do business with his companies.

Just like all these people he’s paying off and then two days later realizes he made a mistake and wants to hire them back. Just like all these tariffs they are so fast to impose and then AFTER THINKING ABOUT SHIT want to start rolling it all back. These people are legit dumb as fuck.

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 19 points 1 month ago

The name Ford making Elon cry again

[-] Kalon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Good. Should cut ties with that asshole. He is constantly pitching ideas that are not that great on their own and can only be accomplished with subsidies.

And all this tariff threat should have repercussions. Can't keep going back and forth, back and forth without saying enough.

I say this as an American who is disgusted with how this administration is treating our closest friends and allies.

[-] wasay@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

EU citizen here, I see that Premier Doug Ford is doing good stuff, it is a good political figure in general?

[-] doxxx@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 month ago

He’s a Conservative douchebag in general.

[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Even conservatives have principles, at least they used to, getting less and less popular with that crowd though. Centrist liberals however refuse to have principles because "that's taking sides."

[-] psmgx@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Doug Ford does not have principles. He's in the right on this one, this time, but was actively trying to convince his base he was a Canadian Trump until the tariffs looked to annihilate his province financially.

As someone else said, "broken clock moment"

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[-] wasay@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Oh. Then it looks like he is trying to clean his image or something.

[-] doxxx@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 month ago

He could actually be patriotic for all I know but he has tried to enrich himself and his buddies at the expense of the public before so I trust him about as far as I could throw him.

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[-] ahal@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

Not really, he was already insanely popular before this. Just won a third majority a week ago, which is unheard of in Ontario politics. It's more that he knows how to connect with people and the electorate is very gullible / willing to turn a blind eye.

With all this recent goodwill he'll probably end up being our prime minister at some point shudder

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[-] Banana@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Hahahahaha no, this is one of the very few odd times that I agree with him.

That being said, I come from one of the orangest (NDP), most union-ey provinces, Manitoba, so I'm a bit biased.

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[-] spechter@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

From what I've understood he's a conservative populist. So interpret that however you want.

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