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Except 2/3 of those states voted blue.

It will likely take awhile for this to have any effect. I know at least in my state (ME) the utility needs to give a 30 day notice of rate hike and then that needs to then go to committee within public utility commission, who will basically arbitrate the request for increase.

Consequently, my supplier of electricity is a wholly owned Canadian company...so they'd actually be paying the increase until a rate hike was approved. Also, would a punitive rate hike even be approved?

They have enough trouble getting a 1% rate hike though for building infrastructure.

Edit: Although I'm not up to speed on if the affected states have set rates or variable rates.

Pretty sure american products don't have much of a presence outside of the USA because they're actually low-quality and expensive.

Brit here, I make sure to try and pay more attention and avoid American products now. Not that I bought many before, cola is probably the main one when at a pub/restaurant. Now if there is nothing else I want I just get water. So probably a healthier switch.

Yeah, I'm discouraged to even buy American because Trump and the Republicans have basically turned that into a nationalist policy. I used to love buying American and local, but it feels gross to think that I'm supporting their agenda.

I’m American I agree. Your country doesn’t deserve our businesses if we have a dictator running our country

Trump himself signed the treaty that he now claims is unfair. The US doesn't have respect for honour, the law, or even reality anymore. They voted in a criminal to be their President, they have no respect for anything except money now.

There is no promise or treaty that will bring this to a conclusion forever.

I suspect he's playing it up for the camera in order to differentiate himself from American conservatives now that they've begun turning on Canada. It's something I imagine we'll see out of Poilievre as well, because otherwise they'll quickly become unelectable.

Just remember that they were chums all up until this point, and that's still damning. Ford supported American conservatives all the way until the leopards turned to eat his face. Yeah, it's cool that he's going above and beyond to fight back now, but he still wants Ontario to act like Texas.

Thanks for the correction. I'd only seen news that he promised to do that, but not that he had.

Hopefully they actually killed that contract and not just saying it for clout. They better have a plan to still provide better Internet services to these communities.

My wife's family had to deal with shitty xplornet services for years while living in the sticks. They literally had no internet for weeks and xplornet was like "we don't see any issues on our end". It took multiple calls to actually get a tech to finally come out, but then said nothing's wrong and left it at that, despite no internet still. Xplornet just eventually started ignoring their calls. They got starlink and haven't had an issue since. It sucks that it's owned by Elon "the man-child Nazi" Musk, who could just decide to cut off services in Canada. Doesn't help our own telecoms are dog shit in their own way either. It's long overdue getting the rural and remote communities access to Internet in Canada.

yaRrr 🏴‍☠️

(sorry my pirate brain must've subconsciously took over 😉)

In the past when he refuses emergency assistance for blue states his advisers struggle to make him understand that the affected areas voted for him. Seems to struggle to understand or care beyond how an entire state voted.