Doug Ford, the Prime Minister of Ontario, one of the most populous provinces in Canada, announced on X that the government of the province “would tear” its $ 100 million contract with the Satellite Starlink Internet service Elon Musk.
The news comes shortly after President Donald Trump announced this weekend a price of 25% on almost all Canadian imported goods, which makes Canada impose a 25% rate on American products in response.
“Ontario will not be dealing with people who have hell on the destruction of our economy”, Ford Posted on X Monday.
Musk has become a close confident of President Trump and now supervises the so-called Ministry of Government Effectiveness, or DOGE, a team from the Trump administration responsible for achieving massive costs for public spending and large-scale deregulation. At the same time, the Musk Starlink was Seeks to conclude agreements With local and national governments to provide satellite internet. Ontario’s government’s starlink contract was signed in November 2024 and was supposed to provide rapid internet in distant parties from the province.
At a press conference on Monday, Ford also said that US companies will be prohibited from future provincial contracts In Ontario until the United States government removes prices. Ford said Musk was “part of the Trump team who wants to destroy families, income, destroy businesses”.
“”[Musk] wants to remove food from the table of people, people who work hard, and I’m not going to tolerate it, “said Ford.
“US companies will not lose tens of billions of new income. They only have President Trump to blame. »»
Starlink did not immediately respond to our request for comments.
