Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford said he would rip up a Starlink contract worth US$68.5million.

Ford said Musk was “part of the Trump team that wants to destroy families, incomes, destroy businesses” in Canada.

The Starlink contract, signed in November and to be finished in June, was supposed to provide high-speed internet access through the company’s satellite service to 15,000 homes and businesses in some of Canada’s most northern communities.

“Ontario won’t do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy,” Ford wrote on X. “Canada didn’t start this fight with the US, but you better believe we’re ready to win it.”

Earlier, he’d ordered the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, LCBO, “to remove American products off LCBO shelves” or ban US companies from provincial procurement.

Ford added, “They only have President Trump to blame,” warning that “tens of billions of dollars” in new revenues would be lost due to the retaliatory response. As Ford wasn’t mincing his words, Musk was unusually quiet, only writing on X, “Oh well.”

Fortunately for Musk, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was on the phone with Trump, trying to negotiate a surrender.

Trudeau later took to X, saying he’d just had a “good call” with Trump and had agreed to implement a “$1.3 billion border plan.”

He said his country would bolster the border with 10,000 frontline personnel and launch the Canada—US Joint Strike Force to “combat organised crime, fentanyl, and money laundering.” In response, Trump agreed to pause the tariffs for 30 days.

Ford called the deal “good news” but warned that retaliation was still possible depending on future scenarios.

“So long as our trading relationship with our largest trading partner is up in the air, we will continue to see many potential projects frozen and projects already underway put at risk,” he explained.

He added that the “real” trade war was with China, not between the US and Canada, saying, “If we want to win, we need to fight together — not each other.”