Crying Uncle: Ontario Premier Makes Liberation Day Plea to Trump, Agrees to His Terms

Crying Uncle: Ontario Premier Makes Liberation Day Plea to Trump, Agrees to His Terms


Ontario Premier Doug Ford is apparently coming around to President Donald Trump’s way of thinking that Canada should remove its high tariffs on U.S. goods coming into his country.

This is the same Canadian leader who had threatened just last month to shut off electricity to Americans coming from his country if Trump imposed tariffs.

CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Ford on Wednesday, ahead of Trump’s reciprocal tariff announcement, “Do you think it’s fair? You have tariffs on a whole number of products.”

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“That’s right, and we’d be willing to take those off tomorrow if he took all the tariffs off,” Ford said.

Sorkin responded to Ford, “You’re saying you’d take all the tariffs off. … I guess my question is, why has all of

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