Premier Danielle Smith travelled south this weekend for a face-to-face meeting with incoming U.S president Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.
RELATED VIDEO : Canada 's top politicians have spent several weeks attempting to convince U.S. president-elect Donald Trump not to impose tariffs on Canadian imports. This includes Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.Political watchers say Premier Danielle Smith is walking a tightrope, diplomatically pleading Alberta’s case to an incoming U.S. president threatening to annex Canada without throwing the rest of the country under the bus.
Smith getting an exemption would make her a hero in Alberta, but elsewhere, Canadians might see it as a betrayal, because Canada would lose some of its ability to demonstrate to Americans how tariffs hurt them, Young said. When Trump announced in November he would institute the tariffs, it was tied to his desire to stem the flow of drugs and migrants crossing the border.
Like Young, Williams said it will be a tough balancing act for Smith to advance Alberta’s interests without framing other provinces’ main industries as more legitimate targets for tariffs.1st carbon rebates of 2025 set to roll out. What Canadians can expect Duane Bratt, a Mount Royal University political scientist, said Smith is right to speak directly to Trump about the economic consequences of tariffs that Americans haven’t felt yet.Bratt said some will criticize Smith for “playing footsie with a maniac,” while members of her own United Conservative Party are aligned with many of Trump’s policies and have mused about joining the U.S. in the past.
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