Doug Ford, Prime Minister Ontario, one of the most inflected provinces in Canada, announced on the X Government to be “dropped” by a $ 100 million contract with a satellite internet service of Starlink Elona Musk.
The news comes shortly after President Donald Trump Announced this weekend 25% of tariffs to almost all Canadian imported goods, causing Canada to impose 25% of tariffs on American goods in response.
“Ontario will not do business with people hellish in destroying our economy,” Ford Posted on X on Monday.
Musk has become a close commissioner of President Trump, and now oversees the so -called Ministry of Government Efficiency, or Doge, a team in Trump’s administration in charge of conducting mass reduction of costs on state consumption and broad -line deregulation. At the same time, Musk -ov Starlink was In search of bids with local and national governments to provide satellite internet. The Starlink Agreement was signed in November 2024 and was supposed to provide rapid internet in remote parts of the province.
At a press conference on Monday, Ford also said that US companies will be banned from future provincial contracts In Ontario until the US government removed the tariffs. Ford said that Musk was a “part of Trump’s team that wants to destroy families, income, destroy companies.”
“[Musk] He wants to take food from the table of people, diligent people and I will not tolerate it, “Ford said.
“Companies based in the US will not lose tens of billions of dollars of new revenue. They just blame President Trump. “
Starlink did not immediately respond to our comment request.