TRILLIUM TALK: Charged-up Doug Ford determined to hit back at U.S.

​Welcome back to Trillium Talk, your must-see briefing from Village Media’s team of journalists at the Ontario Legislature. 

Now that the provincial election campaign is over, our regular Sunday morning catch-up with staffers at The Trillium is back to its regular weekend time slot.

On the show today is deputy editor Sneh Duggal, who breaks down another chaotic week in the on-again, off-again tariff war driven by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Although Trump did another about-face on Thursday, announcing a temporary partial backtrack on some of the tariffs he put in place two days earlier, Ontario Premier Doug Ford is vowing to push through on his plan to add 25 per cent to the price of electricity that flows to the United States.

Ford says the surcharge, set to take effect Monday, will remain in place until Trump "drops the tariffs completely."

"Isn't this a shame?" Ford told reporters at Queen's Park on Thursday. "This whole thing with President Trump is an absolute mess."

Also on the show today: Ontario has reached an agreement in principle with the feds on extending $10-a-day child-care — but the province wants more than the $16.77 billion Ottawa is offering. 

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