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Canada’s Tariff Response Hampered by Alberta, Minister Says
- Provincial leader has balked at using oil as trade war weapon
- Country ‘needs to speak with one voice,’ Wilkinson says
Danielle Smith, Alberta's premier.
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Canada’s effort to push back against possible US tariffs is being undermined by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s pledge to fight federal plans to cut or tax crude exports to the US, Canada’s natural resources minister said.
The size and nature of tariffs against Canada by the Trump administration aren’t clear even to people close to the president-elect, but Canada can’t take any “tools off the table” in its response, Jonathan Wilkinson said Thursday after a visit to Washington to meet with US lawmakers.