Canadian premier threatens to cut off energy to US in response to Trump tariffs: 'They need to feel the pain'

Ontario Premier Doug Ford doubled down on his threats during a mining convention 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," he added. 

The U.S. is a major customer of Canadian electricity, the report states, with New York, Michigan and Minnesota being Ontario's three biggest customers of domestically-produced power.

Ford said he would match the U.S. tariff for tariff. 

"That's exactly what we're going to do," Ford said.

"The provinces have a big say in it, but it's the federal government that's leading the charge, and we're going to stand shoulder-to-shoulder no matter who's in the federal government."

In response to the Trump tariffs, Canada announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods on Tuesday. 

"A fight with Canada will have no winners," Trudeau said while speaking to reporters in Ottawa.

"We will never be the 51st state, but he (Trump) can do damage to the Canadian economy, and he's started this morning, but he is rapidly going to find out, as American families are going to find out, that that's going to hurt people on both sides of the border," he added. 

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