{"id":15051,"date":"2025-02-03T15:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=15051"},"modified":"2025-02-03T15:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:04:19","slug":"ontario-to-cancel-100mn-contract-with-elon-musks-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=15051","title":{"rendered":"Ontario to cancel $100mn contract with Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=0f8ea270-1807-407c-bc04-6bb9fe6e5478\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The Canadian province of Ontario has said it will cancel a $100mn contract with Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink in retaliation against US tariffs. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll be ripping up the province\u2019s contract with Starlink. Ontario won\u2019t do business with people hell-bent on destroying our economy,\u201d premier Doug Ford posted on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The deal, agreed in November, was intended to help connect 15,000 households in remote parts of Canada\u2019s most populous province. <\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s provinces have launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/3f8985c4-fbad-42f4-b91b-2ddb12c6c54d\" data-trackable=\"link\">several retaliatory measures<\/a> since US President Donald Trump announced 25 per cent tariffs against the country on Saturday, including pulling American drinks from stores and banning US companies from provincial government contracts. <\/p>\n<p>Ford said US companies would lose tens of billions of dollars in new contracts every year from Ontario alone. <\/p>\n<p>Mexico\u2019s President Claudia Sheinbaum has said her country would respond with its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/trade-disputes\" data-trackable=\"link\">retaliatory tariffs<\/a>, with details expected on Monday. Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has already announced C$155bn (US$106bn) in tariffs against the US. <\/p>\n<p>The two leaders spoke by phone on Sunday, but Canadian officials said their tariff response was not being co-ordinated. <\/p>\n<aside aria-labelledby=\"aside-label\" class=\"n-content-recommended--single-story n-content-recommended--inset\" data-component=\"recommended\">\n<p class=\"n-content-recommended__title\">Recommended<\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser o-teaser--article o-teaser--small o-teaser--stacked o-teaser--has-image js-teaser\" data-id=\"3f8985c4-fbad-42f4-b91b-2ddb12c6c54d\">\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-container js-teaser-image-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/3f8985c4-fbad-42f4-b91b-2ddb12c6c54d\" data-trackable=\"image-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-placeholder\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2289\/1288\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Canada\u2019s response was intended to put pressure on Republican lawmakers and other people with influence on Trump, by targeting businesses and jobs in their states, the officials said. <\/p>\n<p>Former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland has suggested imposing tariffs on Tesla cars to fight back against Trump\u2019s \u201cbillionaire buddies\u201d. But Trudeau\u2019s government has ruled out putting tariffs on particular brands, with officials saying levies can only be imposed on categories of products. <\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s Starlink satellite internet system had been embraced by many Canadians who struggle to get cheap, reliable internet in remote locations. The company said last year it had 400,000 active customers in Canada. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0f8ea270-1807-407c-bc04-6bb9fe6e5478\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}