Top Canadian politician launches retaliation to Trump's tariffs and directly targets Elon Musk

With Donald Trump's 25 percent tariff connected Canada and Mexico acceptable to instrumentality effect Tuesday, the apical authoritative successful Ontario, Canada says helium volition 'rip up' a authorities declaration with Elon Musk's Starlink technology.

'Ontario won't bash concern with radical hellbent connected destroying our economy,' the province's Premier Doug Ford said successful a connection Monday greeting disavowing the $100 cardinal contract.

He said helium was banning contracts betwixt the state and U.S. companies until 'U.S. tariffs are removed.' 

The determination comes arsenic Trump came retired with much pugnacious speech Sunday blasting Canada and blaming the state for drugs and migrants coming into the U.S. Musk, meanwhile, is helming Trump's effort to eliminate the U.S. Agency for International Development, an bureau authorized and appropriated by Congress that Trump says is being 'run by extremist near lunatics.' 

'It's been a 1 mode street. We subsidize Canada to the tune of astir $200 cardinal a year,' Trump said, overstating the U.S.-Canada commercialized shortage of $41 billion. 'And for what? What bash we get retired of it? We don't get thing retired of it...Something is going to hap there. If they privation to play the game, I don't mind, we tin play the crippled each they want.'

“Every year, the Ontario authorities and its agencies walk $30 cardinal connected procurement, alongside our $200 cardinal program to physique Ontario,' Ford posted connected X, a level owned by Musk. 

'U.S.-based businesses volition present suffer retired connected tens of billions of dollars successful caller revenues. They lone person President [Donald] Trump to blame,' helium added.

'We’re going 1 measurement further. We’ll beryllium ripping up the province’s declaration with Starlink. Ontario won’t bash concern with radical hellbent connected destroying our economy. Canada didn't commencement this combat with the U.S., but you amended judge we're acceptable to triumph it.'

Trump spoke Monday to Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, who has already announced Canada would deed backmost connected $155 cardinal connected U.S. products.

Trump deed Canada again successful different Truth Social station Monday morning, past indicated the 2 would talk again.

'Canada doesn’t adjacent let U.S. Banks to unfastened oregon bash concern there. What’s that each about? Many specified things, but it’s besides a DRUG WAR, and hundreds of thousands of radical person died successful the U.S. from drugs pouring done the Borders of Mexico and Canada. Just spoke to Justin Trudeau. Will beryllium speaking to him again astatine 3:00 P.M.'

The looming commercialized warfare was causing jitters connected Wall Street, with the Dow down much than 400 points successful aboriginal trading – the archetypal since Trump signed orders to enforce the tariffs. 

Canada's system is dwarfed by that of the U.S., giving Trump leverage successful immoderate negotiations to effort to avert the commercialized war. But the 2 economies besides are intimately linked done the proviso chain, with car parts going backmost and distant betwixt Detroit and different U.S. plants and Ontario and different Canadian manufacturers. 

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum slapped backmost with her ain retaliatory tariffs connected the U.S. 'I've instructed my system curate to instrumentality the program B we've been moving on, which includes tariff and non-tariff measures successful defence of Mexico's interests,' she wrote Saturday.

Trump spent portion of the play raging astatine the Wall Street Journal aft the paper's blimpish editorial blasted what it called 'The Dumbest Trade War successful History.'

Trump deed backmost Sunday connected Truth Social, writing: 'The “Tariff Lobby,” headed by the Globalist, and ever wrong, Wall Street Journal, is moving hard to warrant Countries similar Canada, Mexico, China, and excessively galore others to name, proceed the decades agelong RIPOFF OF AMERICA, some with respect to TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS that are allowed to truthful freely travel into AMERICA.'

'Will determination beryllium immoderate pain? Yes, possibly (and possibly not!)' Trump wrote Sunday greeting successful all-caps connected his Truth Social media platform, defending his enforcement order.

'But we volition Make America Great Again, and it volition each beryllium worthy the terms that indispensable beryllium paid.'

Kevin Hassett, who chairs Trump's Council of Economic Advisors, said Monday astatine the White House that it was 'not a commercialized war, this is simply a cause war.'

'The Canadians look to person misunderstood the plain connection of the enforcement order, and they're interpreting it arsenic a commercialized war. And I deliberation that that's astir apt accordant with the policies that we've seen from this failed authorities successful the past, wherever they'd fto their ain cause occupation get retired of control, and alternatively of addressing the cause problem, they privation to blasted the US, and possibly get immoderate governmental payment retired of saying that Trump's tried to make a commercialized war. Why would helium bash that with Canada successful Mexico? This is 100% astir cause war. It's 100% astir fentanyl,' helium said.

Trump said the tariffs are needed to 'protect' Americans from the 'major menace of amerciable aliens and deadly drugs.'

Trudeau says little than 1% of fentanyl that enters the U.S. comes from Canada.