The Canadian province of Ontario on Monday announced it was banning contracts with US companies in retaliation over President Trump’s expected tariffs — including scrapping a nearly $70 million deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, one of the more hard-line leaders on the question of retaliation, said U.S.-based businesses would lose out on tens of billions of dollars in new revenues and only had Trump to blame.
“Starting today and until US tariffs are removed, Ontario is banning American companies from provincial contracts,” Ford, who heads the most populous Canadian province, wrote on X early Monday morning.
“Every year, the Ontario government and its agencies spend $30 billion on procurement, alongside our $200 billion plan to build Ontario,” the premier wrote. In US dollars, that amounts to $20 billion on procurement and $137 billion.
Ford also said that “we’re going one step further” by “ripping up the province’s contract with Starlink.”
“Ontario won’t do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy,” Ford wrote.