What a fucking joke: Ford said he was going to impose an export tax on electricity exports to the United States. In other words, he played his strongest card. And then, when Trump did exactly as was expected, a) Ford didn't see it coming and b) had no plan to deal with Trump's threatened fifty percent tariff on steel and aluminum. So, Ford C-A-V-E-D and threw away the only effective card he had in the deck. Someone who actually knows what they're doing would have responded like this: OK, the export tax stays on, and if you double the tariff on steel and aluminum, Ontario will double the export tax. That's how you get an asshole to back down, not by throwing in the towel, asking for a meeting at the White House and getting Lutnick and the other sycophants to play nice with you while promising nothing in the way of American concessions. In short, Ford bluffed, and when it didn't work, simply winged it.
I've got news for Ford: POS Trump now sees Ford as weak and will make damned sure that no concessions are made to Canada and certainly not to Ontario. They'll meet again next week, and no positive outcomes will come out of that meeting either.
Trump must be laughing: he rolled Ford, just like he made chumps out of Trudeau, LeBlanc and Joly. These people haven't got a clue what they're doing. Put another way, Smith has company at the provincial level. All the Trump tariffs are still there and will remain there, Carney or no Carney, Ford or no Ford. And while you're at it, look up brinksmanship in the dictionary.
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