While Canada my have escaped Donald Trump's threat of massive tariffs on imports for now, politicians and business leaders from Alberta say the threat is still there.
WATCH: Alberta premier Danielle Smith says she's pleased the Trump administration hasn't implemented tariffs on its first day in office, but warns the threat is real. Adam MacVicar reports.Relief. That was the reaction from most Albertans to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to back away from a promise to impose sweeping new tariffs on Canadian imports during his first day in office.
“It’s now up to us to demonstrate why that would harm the American consumer more than it would help, and I think we have a really good case to make,” said Smith.“We buy more American products than anyone else in the world. When you take out energy, we buy more U.S. products and services than they buy from us. So we actually are the ones with the trade deficit.”Alberta Premier Danielle Smith meeting with Marco Rubio, nominee for U.S. Secretary of State, and Peter Hegseth, nominee for U.S.
Most of the refineries in the U.S. Midwest are reliant on the type of crude oil that Alberta produces, said Masson, and replacing that wouldn’t be easy — “so they want our oil.”However, in an effort to also increase American domestic oil production, Trump followed through on his campaign rallying cry of “drill baby drill” and declared a national energy emergency on his first day in office.Its a policy that creates a bit of a dichotomy for Canadian politicians and industry.
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