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Canadian premier threatens to cut off energy to US in response to Trump tariffs: ‘They need to feel the pain’
In response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the leader of Canada’s most populous province threatened to cut energy to the United States with «a smile on my face,» adding that «they need to feel the pain.»
Ontario Premier Doug Ford doubled down on his threats during a mining convention Monday.
«If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything – including cut off their energy with a smile on my face,» he vowed Monday, the Toronto Sun reported.
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Doug Ford, Ontario’s premier, on Monday threatened to cut off energy exports to the United States amid President Donald Trump’s new tariffs. (James Park/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«They rely on our energy, they need to feel the pain. They want to come at us hard, we’re going to come back twice as hard,» he added.
The U.S. is a major customer of Canadian electricity, the report states, with New York, Michigan and Minnesota being Ontario’s three biggest customers of domestically-produced power.
In 2022, Canada’s revenue for electricity exports to the U.S. reached a record high of $5.8 billion, according to the Canada Energy Regulator.
Ford said he would match the U.S. tariff for tariff.
«That’s exactly what we’re going to do,» Ford said.
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President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talk prior to a NATO meeting in Watford, England, Dec. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
«The provinces have a big say in it, but it’s the federal government that’s leading the charge, and we’re going to stand shoulder-to-shoulder no matter who’s in the federal government.»
In response to the Trump tariffs, Canada announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods on Tuesday.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the heads of some Canadian provinces have also threatened additional measures.
«A fight with Canada will have no winners,» Trudeau said while speaking to reporters in Ottawa.
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«We will never be the 51st state, but he (Trump) can do damage to the Canadian economy, and he’s started this morning, but he is rapidly going to find out, as American families are going to find out, that that’s going to hurt people on both sides of the border,» he added.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House for comment.
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Car ramming in Mannheim, Germany, leaves 2 dead, multiple injured: reports
A suspect rammed a car into a crowd of people in Mannheim, Germany on Monday, killing two people and injuring multiple others, reports say.
Police said the suspect is in custody, but would not immediately characterize the incident as an attack. The driver is a 40-year-old German from the nearby state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Thomas Strobl, the state interior minister of Baden-Württemberg, where Mannheim is based, told German news agency dpa.
«We mourn with the relatives of the victims of a senseless act of violence and fear for those injured. We cannot accept this,» German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote on X.
Local media reported that a car drove at a high rate of speed into the crowd in Mannheim’s Paradeplatz square, according to Reuters. Locals were urged to avoid the downtown area in Mannheim due to police activity.
SUSPECT IN MUNICH CAR ATTACK HAD ‘ISLAMIST MOTIVATION,’ PROSECUTOR SAYS
Police officers stand next to a damaged vehicle in the city center of Mannheim, Germany, on Monday March 3. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser canceled her participation in the carnival street parade in Cologne due to the events in Mannheim.
«The focus is now on saving lives, treating the injured and the initial investigations by the authorities in Mannheim,» an interior ministry spokesperson told the dpa news agency.
Mannheim University Hospital said they were treating three people from the crash, two adults and a child, dpa reported.
The incident happened weeks after a car ramming attack in Munich left a 2-year-old girl and her mother dead.
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Debris is seen scattered on the streets of Mannehim, Germany, following the reported car ramming attack on Monday, March 3. (Dieter Leder/dpa via AP)
That attack happened a day before Vice President JD Vance and others gathered in Munich for the Munich Security Conference.
German prosecutors later said the suspect in the Munich incident, a 24-year-old Afghan, appeared to have been motivated by Islamic extremism.
Last year, six people also were killed and more than 200 injured when a car slammed into a Christmas market in eastern Germany city of Magdeburg.
Emergency services and police stand at Paradeplatz in Mannheim, Germany, following the incident on Monday March 3. (René Priebe/dpa via AP)
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The suspect, who was arrested, was a 50-year-old doctor originally from Saudi Arabia who had expressed anti-Muslim views and support for the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative For Germany party, the AP reported.
Fox News’ Thomas Ferraro and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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