Canada cannot win a trade war with the US. When we are on our knees he’s going to ask for Yukon, nwt and nunavut. Saying basically nobody lives there and we don’t need it. He can easily buy out northern Canadians by offering lots of money or citizenship and the other 39 million Canadians will reluctantly agree it’s the best compromise.
He knows climate change is real and it makes the north more and more viable every day due to its resources and shipping route.
Another obvious hint at this was traitor Danielle Smith suggesting US military bases in the north just last week.
Don’t you guys basically power a bunch of northern us states, and your crude is the biggest % of their oil.
Slap big enough export tariffs on both that the yanks have to think if they can afford it before turning on the lights and their petrol is more expensive than it is in Europe.
Canadian crude oil makes up 60% of American oil imports, so yes they get a lot from us.
The problem we have is Alberta’s premier (Danielle Smith) has her head so far up Trump’s ass she’s tickling his tonsils … so she’s stonewalling on adding tariffs to the oil. And her next door neighbour in Saskatchewan (Scott Moe) is following suit.
Alberta can do fuck all about tariffs. That’s federal jurisdiction.
https://natural-resources.canada.ca/our-natural-resources/energy-sources-distribution/fossil-fuels/crude-oil/crude-oil-industry-overview/18078
Section 91(2) of the Constitution Act, 1867 assigns responsibility for trade and commerce to the federal government. The provinces can oppose, protest, and pressure the federal government on tariffs, but they have no legal authority to override them.
While it may be legal, Alberta holds enough power (both financially and politically) to make everyone’s life miserable if Danielle feels she hasn’t been heard or respected.
That’s likely why crude oil wasn’t included in the first round of tariffs.
Sure, but so can the federal government do to Alberta. Politically too, the one huge disadvantage that Alberta has over any non-conservative federal government is that it votes too reliably conservative (I mean, if the feds twist their arm, what are they going to do next election, not vote liberal? – that’s why QC has the ROC by the balls by the way). So if it comes to Fed+ON-BC-QC vs AB …good luck.
Ah that sucks. Interesting to know.
Are she up for election soon?
Nope. She was relected for her second term in May 2023 so a little over 2 years to go.
Those fuckers gave her a Majority in May 2023. Her government could fall if, in the unlikely event, at least 6 of her members were recalled.
https://www.abresistance.ca/
The U.S. has a ton of offshore oil reserves - to my understanding the preservation of these sites is less about the environment and more about strategic planning.
This will just result in the Gulf of Mexico becoming more of a toxic dump.