Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is calling on Ottawa to get back to the negotiating table with the United States before its counter-tariffs take effect in two weeks.
Smith, in a statement posted online Tuesday, said tariffs and counter-tariffs only risk further escalating the trade war between Canada and its southern neighbour.
The federal government announced Tuesday its plan to implement retaliatory tariffs starting Sept. 8 on a range of U.S. exports, ranging from steel and aluminum to consumer items, including smartphones and golf clubs.
It also announced relief and support measures for businesses to withstand the trade fight.
Smith said in her statement that she appreciates Ottawa’s plan to support businesses and that her government is working to see if provincial relief is also necessary.
“Alberta’s government remains concerned that tariffs and counter-tariffs increase costs, disrupt supply chains, put pressure on businesses and workers, and ultimately risk escalation to even higher and broader tariffs that will impact even more Canadians,” she said.
“There is still time before these counter-tariffs take effect on Sept. 8, and I am urging the federal government to use that time to get back to the negotiating table with the United States.”
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Smith has been a holdout among provincial and territorial leaders when it comes to putting their support behind Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan for counter-tariffs.
The U.S. tariffs kicked in over the weekend, after Carney called off talks while citing unacceptable terms being sought by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration.
The premier said Tuesday that her focus is on protecting jobs and businesses in Alberta.
The province wasn’t immediately able to respond to questions about what impact Ottawa’s retaliatory tariffs could have on Alberta’s economy.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said earlier Tuesday that the counter-tariffs will cover 11.3 per cent of his province’s annual imports from south of the border, totalling $1.5 billion worth of goods.
Moe said Ottawa was making the right decision, despite the impact it’s expected to have on Saskatchewan.
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Danielle’s turds are smarter than ANY canadian politician
I see comments that defy logic. The East (as in Eastern Canada) doesn’t control oil prices. Nor do they import oil from the Middle East. The oil companies and refinery companies import oil. Maybe it is time people realize it was a bad idea for these phony Conservatives and Reformers in Alberta to cheat us out of the oil and tax wealth that Peter Lougheed was getting? Danielle Smith and the UCP aren’t helping Alberta, or Canada. Danielle Smith and the UCP aren’t loyal to Canada. Wab Kinew is far more smarter.
Alberta is doing what’s best for Alberta since Ottawa has been screwing our futures and children’s futures. Suddenly the east is concerned about oil. They’ve been pushing to keep it in the ground and import from Middle East. Now your talking oil? To late. Elbows down, buns up!
The Liberals are drooling over the revenue they will pull in from the counter tariffs. Their laundromat will be operating overtime. They have no intention for making a deal,just lining their pockets.vvb
Danielle Smith is not a team player, she is desperate to hold on to her support base. Time will come next fall when it is over for her and the separatist. Goodbye
Why do cowards not use there name ?
I guess they were right Danial Smith is a TRAITOR, Stand for Canada or move to the US!
Why was Danielle nicknamed “two face” in high school? Backstabbed everyone.
Two hubbies, her early Wild Rosies after she said not to floor cross (she did), then Kenney’s UCP, then her own UCP health inspectors. then all of Canada.
Disgusting.
Loyalty is unknown to her.
Smith is so out of touch with what Albertans want. We want Trump to negotiate in good faith. That does not mean going back to the table and giving him what he wants. It means showing Trump that he cannot just walk all over us. It means putting oil and gas on the table. Showing Trump what will happen if he continues to attack us.
When is the next election, so Albertons may vote her out, she is nothing but a Trump puppet.
She seems to be a trump supporter
Danielle Smith is a voice of reason in this asinine trade war Carnival started. That and Kinew is a jackass…
Daniele Smith expects Canada and Canadians to pay for her pipelines but she doesn’t have Canada’s back against Trump! If her pipelines don’t get built, I hope she looks in the mirror to find the reason for her failure!
The children here show why Canada can’r have nice things. Enjoy your poverty
Donny does not respect weakness. Danielle Smith is showing weakness in spades.
Yes, it’s just that easy, just go negotiate! What a genius thought.
I have a prize for dani q Smith. It will be ready by around 630am for p/u if she could send her delivery agent by then.
Stop being so responsible, Smith. The nation is so lost in emotion it can’t actually afford to think!
No one cares what she wants now.
She’s a traitor/spy for Trump.
OOOOooOOOoOOO look at all the Elbows up neanderthals get all frothy at the mouth when they hear a voice of reason, aka Danielle Smith!!! hahahaha I’ll never forget you same idiots were calling her out for travelling down to the U.S. to talk to the Trump admin about trade….then a month or so later, the Liberal clown Joly goes down there doing the exact same thing and youmorons are suddenly all quiet. God forbid we go back to the negotiating table and actually iron out a deal before tariffs come out harming Canadians. You morons are so hilarious!!
Canadians cant trust Danielle Smith who has shown she cares more about Trumps wants than Canadians needs. She wants us to bow to Trumps every desire, which is weak and will only make him walk over us more. She should move to Mar-a-lago and get a face lift to turn her resting bitumen face upside down. We should be putting higher tariffs on all products used to make Trumps ballroom so Americans see how much money he’s willing to blow on beautifying monuments in his honor rather than ensuring Americans can afford to live so they will vote blue in November. Get rid of the selfish orange orangutan in office.
Thats all I know how to say.
Axe this
Axe that
Axe dani smith
Phuk trudo
Axe the tariffs.
Carney should call war measures act and arrest the mole
She can go pound sand in the bow river.
Go away Yankee doodler Dani , go to mar a largo , back to the mole hole
Yankee doodler Dani is doing what the Waco taco tariff king tells her to do , right out of the trump playbook. When is governor dani going to take American booze off the shelves ? When is she going to get to the bottom of how her seperatists got confidential voter info ? When is Yankee doodler Dani going to slap an export tax on oil and gas ? Governor smith your supposed to support Canadians not king trump.
“her government is working to see if provincial relief is also necessary.”. Really? For what? Her province is the least affected one in the country because she has butt licked trump and his slaves almost from the start. I only say almost from the start because they did take their alcohol off the shelves briefly before bending over.
Alberta Premier already humiliated herself in Mar a Lago , no thanks Smith, that man is nut
ELBOW UP !
Blow me. Wait, I just saw your picture. Forget it.
I get the feeling that Smith is a mole for the Trump Admin.
What is wrong with you Danielle Smith!!!!! You are as nutty as Trump, you need to be booted to the curb. You are a traitor to your Country as Trump the Dump and all his Minions are to theirs!!! YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF!!!!!!!
Who gives a phuck what the referendum queen thinks.
…big surprise coming from smith, the trump fingerpuppet…
Danielle Smith, if you hate Canadians that much, leave and go to the States
Yes please Smith let us sell out to Trump
Send her to Trump and Buttlick
@George. I don’t miss you from Seinfeld.
She’s a separatist Premier who wants to leave Canada… why the heck would she want to do anything to support Canada. She claims otherwise, but we all know she bows at the throne of Sleepy-Don, and is more than willing to do his bidding.
Just a hard no Danielle.
Separate yourself from 🇨🇦 Danielle Trump.
so many low IQ lieberals much like the US democrats. Just need someone as smart as red hair guy to negotiate and not play politics
Overwhelming majority of Canada doesn’t care what Marlene Smith wants the PM to do. The PM is acting in the best interests of Canada and Marlene is acting in the best posturing for her separatist minority of supporters.
Even her superior, Poilievre who has refused to get security clearance to be read into things of national importance doesn’t have a right to be at that table.
Not at the expense of Canadian culture, sovereignty, freed to trade with other nations, antibiotic and hormone free dairy, and most especially, not at the expense of French language.
Grew up in Alberta and lived there for more than 45 years.
Danielle I love ya, but give your head a facking shake!
Donnie’s dickey licker!! No good for anything else????
lol, sure Danielle…..as soon as you grow a backbone and agree that oil exports to the US will be subjected to duties!!!
Take American booze off the shelves governor smith . Prove your not a treasonous trumpet operative
Yankee Doodler Dani is doing what her American counterpart wants . Just another action that supports her pro American, anti Canadian separatists agenda. Carney should have her put in jail for conspiring against Canada with foreign agents.
F/ YOU DANI ELLE !!! GO GIVE TRUMP ANOTHER BL_ _ JOB !!! BETTER YET , MOVE TO THE STATES
I do not know why she does not go to bed with him….????