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Trump Tariffs on Quebec Electricity Backfire: How One Decision Put New England’s Power Grid at Risk

At 11:34 PM on a Friday, Trump posted about imposing a 200% tariff on Quebec electricity—meaningless legally, but devastating in impact. By morning, Republican governors had praised the idea, and Hydro-Québec executives made a rational decision: they suspended all new export contracts to the United States, citing “increasing political risk.” In hours, 4.7 gigawatts of planned power for New England vanished. Energy prices spiked. Bills were projected to rise 40%. Four states sued Trump personally for the economic damage caused by a single social media post.

But the real lesson went beyond one man. Quebec wasn’t punishing America—it was protecting itself from a political system that had proven structurally unreliable. As Mark Carney noted: “American politics produced someone who posts about 200% tariffs with no authority. That’s not a market you build fifty-year infrastructure around.” Hydro-Québec redirected power to Ontario, the Maritimes, and even explored undersea cables to Europe. New England was left with higher costs, less reliability, and a harsh truth: they had become the risky customer no rational supplier wanted.

Trump’s post didn’t change policy; it changed perception. It confirmed that American chaos was not an aberration, but a recurring risk. Partners learned that avoiding America was cheaper than managing its instability. The damage—$67 billion in higher energy costs over a decade—was irreversible. One post, from a man with no power, proved that the United States had lost something no tariff could restore: trust.

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