Ontario Premier Threatens to Cut Off Electricity to 1.5 Million Americans

The premier of Canada’s most populated province, Ontario, has become the tip of the spear of Canada’s response to the trade war started by US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, March 4. “If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything — including cut off their energy with a smile on my face,” Doug Ford told reporters in Toronto, Monday.

“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.” The next-door province…