• Dearche@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    This is excluding the 100 million contract the Ontario government has with Starlink, which Ford (the premier) has said was going to cancel upon the initial announcement of tariffs, then withdrew when the tariffs didn’t happen, but then never mentioned ever again despite tariff after tariff being applied to Canada, and especially Ontario considering that this province is the one hit hardest by both the metals and auto tariffs over any other province as far as I know.

    Basically Ontario is hit the hardest by the actually applied tariffs, and yet our premier is giving public enemy #2 100 million in taxpayer dollars for a service that can mostly be fulfilled by local companies already.

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        13 days ago

        Right. Thanks for reminding me that he has announced it. Unfortunately I can’t find any information to confirm if he went through with the cancellation or not because nobody’s reporting on it since that announcement.

        Hopefully it was fully cancelled, but frankly I just can’t trust Ford to not fold on something like this.