Ontario’s premier, the leader of Canada’s most populous province, is now charging 25% more for electricity shipped to 1.5 million Americans.

TORONTO — Ontario's surcharge of 25 per cent on electricity exported to the United States goes into effect today, and the government says it could raise that amount even higher in response to further American escalation.

Donald Trump put in place a 25% tariff on Canadian goods and 10% on energy Tuesday. The country has retaliated, and Ontario threatened energy cuts. As muddled as their message can be at times, Democrats do still share a common vision for the bare minimum of what this country deserves.

Ontario's retaliatory threat to impose a 25% surcharge on electricity exported to the United States would have an unclear impact in neighboring Michigan.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has blasted United States President Donald Trump’s tariff threats to Canada On March 4, tariffs were issued on Canada and Mexico, with the US president saying they were aimed at curbing the flow of illegal border crossings and drugs into America Following this announcement,