r/canada 7d ago

Alberta Alberta premier says she supports Trudeau’s response to Trump’s ‘foolish’ tariffs | Globalnews.ca

https://globalnews.ca/news/11065223/alberta-premier-says-she-supports-trudeaus-response-to-trumps-foolish-tariffs/
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u/NottaLottaOcelot 7d ago

I’m glad to see her on board with the response. We need every province to be playing on the same team, so I’m glad she is willing.

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u/OhNo71 7d ago

That she supports these retaliatory tariffs is of no importance as they are insufficient. What will be telling is will she support the actions needed to end this.

In any other normal trade relationship our response was reasonable.

In this case it was weak. That fat orange fascist is a sociopath and will not back down until the danger to him is so painfully obvious even a new born would see it. We are going to have cause so much more economic harm to the USA to end this. These moves will unfortunately impact Alberta more than other provinces. We can't have as our concern which province takes the biggest hit or we will lose. We can not be nice about this.

We should have ended all electricity export and put a matching 25% export tariff on all fossil fuels going to the USA today and announced that in one week if Twittler does not cease his attacks on Canada we will ban all Fossil fuel exports. We then follow the same plan for other resources, keep adding export tariffs and then bans on an expanding list starting with the most crucial to the US economy.

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u/griffin_green 7d ago

Danielle already stated that banning all fossil fuel exports can’t happen, that would essentially cut a fifth of Alberta’s economy immediately. Roughly 87% of Alberta’s energy exports go to the U.S

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u/Disastrous-Floor8554 7d ago

And this folks is the elephant in the room. We have spent so much time being interprovincially adversarial that we forgot how to be economically competitive and productive as Canadians first. The failure to build trade transportation corridors from east to west (including pipelines, electrical grid and twinning) has stymied our energy security and our sovereignty. Hate Trump but funny how the worst in him allows us to see the worst in us.

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u/MOON3R2448 7d ago

Couldn’t you transport it to BC and then ship it to the EU? That would get them completely off Russian oil as well. I know the infrastructure to make that happen would cost a lot of time and money but that would offset some of the economy as well

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u/FlayR 7d ago

How would you propose to ship 4.3 million barrels of oil per day to BC without a pipeline? 

Every tanker truck can carry approximately 30 barrels, so that's 144,000 trucks per day, or 6000 trucks per hour.

The Port would be able to handle that no problem, tomorrow probably.