Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and President-elect Trump met on Saturday and mentioned the “mutual significance” of a U.S.-Canadian vitality relationship and the lots of of hundreds of American jobs supported by way of Albertan exports.
“Over the final 24 hours I had the chance to satisfy President [Trump] at Mar-a-Lago final evening and at his golf membership this morning,” Smith wrote in a submit on X. “We had a pleasant and constructive dialog throughout which I emphasised the mutual significance of the U.S. – Canadian vitality relationship, and particularly, how lots of of hundreds of American jobs are supported by vitality exports from Alberta.”
She continued, saying she had related discussions with “a number of key allies” of Trump’s incoming administration by which she turned inspired to listen to about their help for “a robust vitality and safety relationship with Canada.”
“On behalf of Albertans, I’ll proceed to interact in constructive dialogue and diplomacy with the incoming administration and elected federal and state officers from each events, and can do all I can to additional Alberta’s and Canada’s pursuits,” Smith stated. “The United States and Canada are each proud and impartial nations with probably the most necessary safety alliances on earth and the biggest financial partnership in historical past. We must protect our independence whereas we develop this vital partnership for the advantage of Canadians and Americans for generations to come back.”
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith met with President-elect Trump and others from his transition crew at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday. (Danielle Smith X)
Smith posted concerning the assembly on X, almost every week after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced his resignation amid rising stress from inside his personal Liberal Party and heightened criticisms over his dealing with of the economic system and threats levied by Trump.
However, as Trudeau introduced on Monday his plan to resign as prime minister as soon as the Liberal Party that he leads chooses his successor, the largest 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 News Digital in an interview that the president-elect’s concentrating on Canada is each “loopy” and “ridiculous.”
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He stated the bilateral focus ought to be on “strengthening” what the Canadian authorities calls a virtually trillion-dollar two-way trade relationship to “make the U.S. and Canada the richest and most affluent jurisdiction on the planet.”
The president-elect has been trolling Canada in latest weeks, floating the thought of it changing into the 51st state and posting a doctored photograph of him standing beside a Canadian flag on high 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 News’ Christopher Guly contributed to this report.
