Yesterday, Ontario premiere Doug Ford officially placed a 25% surcharge on electricity being supplied to the United States. This was a move that Ford had been threatening for several weeks now, attempting to leverage the fact that Ontario supplies approximately 1.5 million homes located in New York, Michigan, and Minnesota with electricity. However, what should have been obvious to anyone who understands how Trump works is that this would be sure to blow up in Ford's face. And rapidly enough, it did.
