Erik De La Garza
March 6, 2025
March 6, 2025
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FILE PHOTO: Ontario Premier Doug Ford, wearing a "Canada is not for sale" hat, speaks to journalists at a provincial and territorial leaders meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada January 15, 2025. REUTERS/Blair Gable/File Photo

FILE PHOTO: Ontario Premier Doug Ford, wearing a "Canada is not for sale" hat, speaks to journalists at a provincial and territorial leaders meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada January 15, 2025. REUTERS/Blair Gable/File Photo
Ontario Premier Doug Ford unloaded on Donald Trump and the ongoing trade war he unleashed on Canada in an interview Thursday, where he promised to barrel forward with 25% electricity tariffs on Americans in a matter of days despite the president’s one-month pause on Canadian and Mexican tariffs.
“Isn’t this a shame?” Ford said. “It’s an absolute mess.”
Ford made the comments during an appearance on Fox News Business moments after Trump announced the tariff pause. But it was too late for Ford, who confirmed that 25% tariffs would be imposed on electricity coming from Ontario to homes and businesses in Michigan, New York and Minnesota come Monday.
“Three great governors – I get already well with them – great people and I apologize to the American people,” he said. “There’s one person to be blamed and that’s President Trump.”
The Canadian leader continued to rip into Trump’s dismantling of the trade relationship between what he described as the United States’ “closest friends” and “closest allies in the entire world.”
“He’s creating chaos,” Ford said. “He ran on a mandate to lower costs, lower inflation, create more jobs – it’s the total opposite. People are going to be losing their jobs in the U.S. and in Canada and inflation is happening already.”
He added: “The market is going downhill quicker than the American bobsled team and it’s unacceptable.”
Ford later took to his X social media account to continue his scathing rebuke of Trump's tariff policy – and make clear his own position.
“The only thing that’s certain today is more uncertainty,” he wrote. “A pause on some tariffs means nothing. Until President Trump removes the threat of tariffs for good, we will be relentless.”
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