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Ontario slapping 25% surcharge on U.S.-bound electricity Monday, Ford says
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Why are mostly blue states getting punished for shithead? They should be focusing on red states. They’re the ones who voted for this nonsense.
I wonder if ON can impose a 25% surcharge solely on Michigan? Ultimately, it doesn't really matter. Plenty of people from Minnesota (47%) and New York (43 %) voted for this nonsense.
Eh, upstate NY is probably all red, save for perhaps part of Albany. NY State and NY City are very, very different.
If they don’t like it, they need to find a way to hold their president accountable. Trump can end this conflict with a word. Until then, we do what we have to.
USA is USA.
People outside of the USA will treat you the same as you treat any other nation. Does trumps tariffs only target the liberal provinces?
Because, it turns out, that blue states and red states are part of the same country. I think it's a stupid way to do things, but that's what you guys have settled on.
Canada can't exactly cut off power to Texas
However, we're willing to export our Arctic Vortices to Texas free of any additional levies.
Texas handles their own outages perfectly well.
I don't know all the facts but maybe if more people.votrd in the first place Donald wouldn't have won? Maybe not.. But Americans should be pushing back and they haven't done anything yet but complain online. Pushing any single one of them to take action is better than only attempting to punish the ones who don't even care.
In addition to the other answers, there are still red districts in blue states, such as NY-21 currently held by Stefanik and has a large border with Canada.
Unfortunately they are the ones getting power provided to them from Ontario.