In a wide-ranging column covering Danielle Smith’s visit to president-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, Alberta oil exports, Trump’s tariff threats, and more, Calgary-based writer Gillian Steward, a contributor to the Toronto Star, an official propaganda rag of the Liberal Party of Canada, suggested Alberta should contemplate becoming the 51st state of the USA.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith sure stirred up the hornet’s nest and upset the apple cart.
The whiners, the moaners, the hysterics are on full display, pounding their drums and mouthing into their megaphones from their social media outposts.
As the clock ticks, the intensity grows.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said there would be a ‘national unity crisis’ if Ottawa attempted to stop the flow of Alberta oil and gas to the U.S. in a potential trade dispute with President-elect Donald Trump.
Trump has threatened to impose a 25% tariff on Canadian goods unless Canada resolves its border security problems. On Sunday, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said Canada is not ruling out the restriction of energy exports to the U.S. as a potential countermeasure.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has emerged as Canada’s de facto prime minister over the last several weeks — and is now giving her reason for attending U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration.
Justin Trudeau, who’s been on the receiving end of Trump’s ridicule on social media, won’t be attending the inauguration.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has spoken out against the carbon tax for the umpteenth time.
Smith said the Alberta government is proud Albertans pay the lowest overall taxes in Canada and is working towards bringing in more income tax relief in 2025 to continue to help families keep more money in their pockets.
Canada is lurching toward a trade war with the United States unlike any it has endured before. While President-elect Donald Trump threatens tariffs as high as 25% on Canadian goods, Prime Minister Trudeau appears determined to inflame the situation by implying American bigotry is the reason Kamala Harris lost the presidential election. Trudeau has treated the situation seriously enough to travel to meet Trump in person on short notice, but the meeting doesn’t appear to have been productive.
She is focused.
“Albertans will go bananas.”
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith does not mince words speaking with Postmedia this day.
There are those suggesting Alberta start sabre-rattling and threatening U.S. President-elect Donald Trump with either completely cutting off Alberta oil to the Americans or taxing the oil heading south.
In a Thursday announcement, the government confirmed that the new Interdiction Patrol Team would consist of 51 officers, ten support staff, four patrol dogs, ten surveillance drones, and four narcotics analyzers.
On top of the 298 kilometres that will be monitored for drug smuggling, gun trafficking, and illegal immigration, a two-kilometre “red zone” will be created. The Interdiction Patrol Team will also monitor major provincial highways and inter-provincial travel routes to and from the border.
A pair of LGBTQ2S+ advocate organizations say they’ve followed through with their plan to challenge Alberta’s three transgender bills in court, starting with one that bars doctors from providing gender-affirming treatment such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy for those under 16.
The Alberta government has confirmed new rules for wind and solar energy projects it says are needed to protect the environment, food security and the province’s scenery.
The new regulations stem from Premier Danielle Smith’s February announcement that Alberta was going to take an “agriculture first” approach towards renewable energy development moving forward following the government-imposed seven-month moratorium on project approvals in 2023.
A recent study released by the Fraser Institute found that Alberta ranked 12th for economic freedom among Canada’s ten provinces, America’s 50 states, Mexico’s 32 states, and the US territory of Puerto Rico. Alberta tied with Texas, Tennessee, Colorado, and South Dakota.
The big showdown finally starts Tuesday, with a fierce counterattack on the federal oil and gas emissions cap from Premier Danielle Smith.
The premier will announce details of a Sovereignty Act motion at a news conference.
Government sources say the motion will “make it virtually impossible for Ottawa to impose the cap in Alberta.”
Over the weekend, a couple of messages came down from Canada. First, it was Premier Doug Ford of Ontario and then Premiere Danielle Smith of Alberta.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith received 91.5 per cent support for her leadership from members of her United Conservative Party who voted in Red Deer, Alta., on Saturday.
The result solidifies Smith’s leadership of Alberta’s governing party and confirms party members agree with the direction she has taken the province in since she took over the party two years ago.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s weekend appointment of two Liberal Party donors as Alberta senators was denounced by the Government of Alberta.
It marks the 35th anniversary of Alberta holding Canada’s first Senate election, according to Blacklock’s Reporter. Premier Danielle Smith said Trudeau’s administration “blatantly disregarded” Alberta’s interests.
