{"id":23499,"date":"2025-03-06T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=23499"},"modified":"2025-03-06T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:13:07","slug":"canadian-premier-has-unusual-request-after-warning-he-will-shut-off-power-to-1500000-customers-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=23499","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Premier has unusual request after warning he will shut off power to 1,500,000 customers in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Premier of Ontario Doug Ford took the opportunity to ‘address something about his phone’ in a press conference.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With US President\u00a0Donald Trump’s<\/a>\u00a0executive order\u00a0imposing ‘catastrophic’ tariffs<\/a>\u00a0on China, Mexico and Canada having come into effect from March 4,\u00a0Canada<\/a>\u00a0is fighting back.<\/p>\n

Alongside Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u00a0responding with counter-tariffs,<\/a>\u00a0Ontario Premier Doug Ford has\u00a0threatened to shut off the power<\/a>\u00a0to 1.5 million US customers warning Canada will hit back ‘twice as hard’ against the US.<\/p>\n

Despite acknowledging\u00a0it’s ‘not’ the American people<\/a>\u00a0but Trump who is the problem, Ford doubled down on his warning to the country noting Canada will ‘use every tool’ in its ‘toolbox’ to ‘send a message to President Trump that [the tariffs are] the wrong thing to do’.<\/p>\n

However, when it comes to another type of message, Ford has admitted he’s struggling.<\/p>\n

Back in the good old days, most of us would’ve probably sent out a BBM broadcast to everyone, updated our status or sent out a mass text, but Premier Ford decided to address a certain issue he’s been facing with people contacting him non-stop during a press conference – no time like the present eh?<\/p>\n

While the press conference was largely concerned with the tariffs being imposed on Canada by the US, Ford added at the end: “Before we wrap up, I want to address something about my\u00a0phone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Folks, I pride myself on returning my calls, I have over 4,038 messages I’ve got to get back to. Please have patience with me, don’t get insulted if I don’t get back to you.<\/p>\n

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Doug Ford is struggling to keep up with messages (Steve Russell\/Toronto Star via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Ford explained he’s been receiving messages in their ‘hundreds, if not thousands’ every single day.<\/p>\n

“And I cannot keep up. I am up until over midnight every single night,” he added.<\/p>\n

And for the people who text the premier at night?<\/p>\n

Well, Ford continued: “And for the people that text me throughout the night, please, wait until the morning time because I have to keep my phone on.<\/p>\n

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“And the four hours – I’m lucky if I get four hours – of sleep I get every night, all I hear is the buzzing beside me.”<\/p>\n

He resolved: “So please, the reason I keep it on is for emergencies, incase there’s something happening catastrophic in the province.<\/p>\n

“I respect you calling me, but please just have patience for me to get back to you. I’m doing everything I possibly can to get back to you on my cellphone.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Premier of Ontario Doug Ford took the opportunity to ‘address something about his phone’ in a press conference. With US President\u00a0Donald Trump’s\u00a0executive order\u00a0imposing ‘catastrophic’ tariffs\u00a0on China, Mexico and … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23501,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499\/revisions\/23501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}