CAN-USA 2025 Tariff Strife (split from various pol threads)

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Looks like Smith is getting support from other premiers. After some reflection they'll generally come around to common sense.

Moe, Legault inch closer to Smith on energy exports, pushing back on major Trump retaliation

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has gained two allies in her push to take energy exports off the table in response to U.S. tariffs.

nationalpost.com

Funny that, eh ?

 

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The view from the West

Braid: No, I am not a traitor for saying Smith can talk to Americans

In Trump tariff dispute, Canadians are being called traitors and treasonous for any disagreement with a party line. Trump will eat us alive.

calgaryherald.com

Alberta is suspicious that Ottawa will slap an export tax on oil and gas to offset economic damage from tariffs, especially in Ontario and Quebec.

But that’s not a popular idea, even among leaders elsewhere. Quebec Premier Francois Legault said any money extracted from Alberta should be returned to Alberta.

There’s always a worry that Ottawa and Ontario are cooking up an anti-West deal. It has happened before, believe me.

But Ontario today is deeply, gravely challenged, far more than any other province.

This explains the near-panic we often sense in Premier Doug Ford. He may call an election as early as next week. On Wednesday, he mildly scolded Smith for not being quite onside.

A desperate man, with good cause.

The funny thing about Ontario is that tariffs built it. Sir John A. MacDonald's National Policy guaranteed that Ontario and Quebec would receive raw materials from the West and ship manufactured goods to the West.

Reciprocity (Canadian politics) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

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Bell: Danielle Smith calls their bluff, gets support from Team Canada

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith stands her ground while Canada's premiers on Team Canada move closer to her position fighting Trump tariffs

calgaryherald.com

Things are looking up. Not break out the champagne up. Not even buy a round of beer up. But still an up. She’s moving the ball down the field.

Smith is scoring points with some of the premiers of this country.

She has not won the day but the situation is better than a few days back when she was being called out for not being a team player and disrupting national unity and idiots were calling her a traitor and actually meaning it.

Smith sees “a growing consensus” on

“The necessity of consulting with and securing consent from individual provinces before cutting off or placing export tariffs on key exports from those provinces.”

The importance of building more pipelines east and west.

More border security. Let’s see the drones and the dogs and the cameras and the boots on the ground and show Trump that Canada finally means business.

There’s beefed-up military spending, living up to commitments made.

Let it be noted the cross-country scolding occurred even though Smith’s view is echoed by many wise sorts, including the esteemed economist Trevor Tombe, who wrote how the Alberta premier was right to push back.

“It’s common for political leaders to say all options are on the table but bad ideas really shouldn’t be,” wrote the man who knows his way around numbers.

 

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Bell: Danielle Smith scorches Trudeau as the villain in Trump tariff drama

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the real bad guy in the tussle with Donald Trump over tariffs on Canada

calgaryherald.com

 

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