Ontario premier makes good on promise to cancel Starlink contract

Ontario Premier Doug Ford confirmed at a press conference Tuesday morning that the province is cancelling its estimated $100-million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink in response to the new U.S. tariffs imposed on Canada as of midnight on March 4. “We’re ripping up Ontario’s contract with Starlink. It’s done, it’s gone. We won’t award contracts to people who enable and who encourage economic attacks on our province and our country,” Ford said during the press conference. The Starlink deal cancellation is part of the province’s move to ban all U.S-based companies from taking part in government procurement contracts, which Ford announced Tuesday along with...