Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and President-elect Trump met Saturday to discuss the “mutual importance” of the U.S.-Canada energy relationship and the hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs supported through Alberta’s exports.
“In the past 24 hours, I’ve had the opportunity to meet with the President [Trump] Last night at Mar-a-Lago and this morning at his golf club,” Smith wrote in a post on X. “We had a friendly and constructive conversation, during which I emphasized the mutual importance of the U.S. and Canadian energy relationship, particularly how Alberta’s energy exports support hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs.
She went on to say that she had similar discussions with “several key allies” in the incoming Trump administration, in which she heard their support for “a strong energy and security relationship with Canada,” which made her Deeply inspired.
“On behalf of Alberta, I will continue to engage in constructive dialogue and diplomacy with the incoming government and elected federal and state officials from both parties, and will do everything in my power to advance the interests of Alberta and Canada,” Smith said. “The United States and Canada are both proud and independent countries with one of the most important security alliances on Earth and the largest economic partnership in history. We need to remain independent while developing this important partnership for the benefit of Canadians.” and future generations of Americans.
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith met with others from President-elect Trump and his transition team at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday. (Danielle Smith x)
Smith posted about the meeting on He resigned due to excessive criticism.
However, with Trudeau announcing on Monday that he plans to step down as prime minister once his Liberal Party elects a successor, the biggest pushback to Trump’s annexation of Canada and his plan to impose 25% tariffs on the country’s exports is coming from Canada’s most populous province. Premier of Ontario.
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Smith and Trump discussed the relationship between the United States and Canada. (Danielle Smith x)
Doug Ford, a former businessman and conservative who has served as Ontario’s 26th premier since 2018, said in a Fox News Digital interview that the president-elect’s attacks on Canada are “crazy.” Also “ridiculous”.
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He said the bilateral focus should be on “strengthening” what the Canadian government says is a nearly trillion-dollar two-way trade relationship to “make the United States and Canada the richest and most prosperous jurisdictions in the world.”
The president-elect has been attacking Canada in recent weeks, floating the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state and posting an altered photo of him standing next to a Canadian flag on a mountaintop.
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Trump has also been pushing Denmark to sell Greenland in the North Atlantic to the United States
Fox News’ Christopher Gurley contributed to this report.
