Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and President-elect Trump met on Saturday and mentioned the “mutual importance” of a U.S.-Canadian vitality relationship and the a whole lot of hundreds of American jobs supported by way of Albertan exports.
“Over the last 24 hours I had the opportunity to meet President [Trump] at Mar-a-Lago last night and at his golf club this morning,” Smith wrote in a publish on X. “We had a friendly and constructive conversation during which I emphasized the mutual importance of the U.S. – Canadian energy relationship, and specifically, how hundreds of thousands of American jobs are supported by energy exports from Alberta.”
She continued, saying she had related discussions with “several key allies” of Trump’s incoming administration wherein she turned inspired to listen to about their assist for “a strong energy and security relationship with Canada.”
“On behalf of Albertans, I will continue to engage in constructive dialogue and diplomacy with the incoming administration and elected federal and state officials from both parties, and will do all I can to further Alberta’s and Canada’s interests,” Smith stated. “The United States and Canada are both proud and independent nations with one of the most important security alliances on earth and the largest economic partnership in history. We need to preserve our independence while we grow this critical partnership for the benefit of Canadians and Americans for generations to come.”
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith met with President-elect Trump and others from his transition group at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday. (Danielle Smith X)
Smith posted concerning the assembly on X, practically every week after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced his resignation amid rising stress from inside his personal Liberal Occasion and heightened criticisms over his dealing with of the economic system and threats levied by Trump.
Nonetheless, as Trudeau introduced on Monday his plan to resign as prime minister as soon as the Liberal Occasion that he leads chooses his successor, the most important pushback to Trump’s pitch to annex Canada – and his deliberate 25% tariffs on exports from the nation – has come from the premier of Canada’s most populous province, Ontario.
Smith and Trump mentioned the connection between the U.S. and Canada. (Danielle Smith X)
Doug Ford, a former businessman and conservative who has served as Ontario’s twenty sixth premier since 2018, instructed Fox Information Digital in an interview that the president-elect’s focusing on Canada is each “crazy” and “ridiculous.”
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He stated the bilateral focus ought to be on “strengthening” what the Canadian authorities calls an almost trillion-dollar two-way commerce relationship to “make the U.S. and Canada the richest and most prosperous jurisdiction in the world.”
The president-elect has been trolling Canada in current weeks, floating the concept of it changing into the 51st state and posting a doctored photograph of him standing beside a Canadian flag on prime of a mountain.
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Trump has additionally been pushing for Denmark to promote the North Atlantic island of Greenland to the U.S.
Fox Information’ Christopher Guly contributed to this report.
