Ontario slapping 25% surcharge on U.S.-bound electricity Monday, Ford says | RCI
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Add that to the eleigble voters who abstained and you have a sizable proportion of the adult population.
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Where necessary or convenient, sure. But alcohol for example has so many other options that I see no reason to give them business ever again. Maybe in a few decades.
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Hopefully they actually killed that contract and not just saying it for clout. They better have a plan to still provide better Internet services to these communities.
My wife's family had to deal with shitty xplornet services for years while living in the sticks. They literally had no internet for weeks and xplornet was like "we don't see any issues on our end". It took multiple calls to actually get a tech to finally come out, but then said nothing's wrong and left it at that, despite no internet still. Xplornet just eventually started ignoring their calls. They got starlink and haven't had an issue since. It sucks that it's owned by Elon "the man-child Nazi" Musk, who could just decide to cut off services in Canada. Doesn't help our own telecoms are dog shit in their own way either. It's long overdue getting the rural and remote communities access to Internet in Canada.
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I suspect he's playing it up for the camera in order to differentiate himself from American conservatives now that they've begun turning on Canada. It's something I imagine we'll see out of Poilievre as well, because otherwise they'll quickly become unelectable.
Just remember that they were chums all up until this point, and that's still damning. Ford supported American conservatives all the way until the leopards turned to eat his face. Yeah, it's cool that he's going above and beyond to fight back now, but he still wants Ontario to act like Texas.
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It's a Brand New Ford!
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Plenty of red outside the cities, though, and if they figure out why they're suddenly paying more for electricity, it may change a few minds about Republicans.
Of course, they're more likely to just blame Democrats for it, but one can hope.
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Not disagreeing at all. It's the standard right wing mode of operation, nothing matters until it affects them personally. It should be studied as a developmental disability.
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I like it, but I'm a little confused.
Why does an individual province determine trade policy? Is this normal for Canada?
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The deal is between the provincial utility, which provides the electricity, and the state utility. In the USA, the federal government controls most resource rights. In Canada, it's the provinces. Comparatively, provinces are a lot more powerful than states are. As I understand it.
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Pretty sure american products don't have much of a presence outside of the USA because they're actually low-quality and expensive.
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Michigan is a blue state?
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Just cut off the oil, that would do it.
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Trump himself signed the treaty that he now claims is unfair. The US doesn't have respect for honour, the law, or even reality anymore. They voted in a criminal to be their President, they have no respect for anything except money now.
There is no promise or treaty that will bring this to a conclusion forever.
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No, but the other two are, and New York in particular is a very notable blue state.
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Life Pro Tips:
To USA Residents: If electricity is too expensive, you could always save money by shiplifting
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Unfortunately, the dumbest ~70 million Americans got together and ruined it for everyone.
Trump is just one guy, but he's the fart filled turd floating on top of a long stream of raw sewage.
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Is that so? In my experience (obviously it depends on the company) American made is, like, one of the gold standards? I've never had issue with American made things
️Again, I'm sure it depends on the product, and I may just have bias because I meticulously research just about everything before I buy, so I may just be buying the really good US made stuff, and most other things are crap, idk. Just like Germany and Japan have things that they really excel in; Australia too, etc.
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Yeah, you simply can't micromanage policies to effect another country to that granularity. It's why people should think carefully about who they elect to represent their country to the rest of the world. The US elected a criminal to represent them, so they have to expect they're going to feel some pain by their association with that criminal, whether they voted for him or not.
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Take cars, for example. Americans don't export their cars on the same level as Japan or even South Korea because their cars are shit.
I have a friend who used to sell rental car insurance and he'd tell me that it's the American cars that always break down.
Buying AmericanTM is just propaganda for useful idiots. I guarantee you most people who are afraid of foreign products or tout American-made quality are simply talking from a lack of experience. They're afraid of what they don't know and don't want to have an experience that might show them they're wrong.
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Brit here, I make sure to try and pay more attention and avoid American products now
