Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the responsibility for the tariffs

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While President Donald Trump has  pushed back his threat  of tariffs until Feb. 1, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the  responsibility for  the tariffs,  if they materialize, lies squarely  with Prime Minister Justin  Trudeau.
"We're very clear why  we're in the situation  we're in today.  "It's 100 percent Justin  Trudeau's fault, who  made a speech a few weeks ago  saying he thought it was an  insult to women that Kamala Harris  didn't win," Smith told reporters at a  news conference Tuesday.
Smith said Canada is in trade negotiations with a new administration in the United States. She added that Trudeau  continues to stir things up and  damage relations between the two  countries.
"If there is a failure,  he will be held accountable for it, so I am counting the days  until he leaves and we can  start over." "There are 47 days  left and I hope he  does not continue  to put the  relationship on fire," Smith said.
Smith said  she was doing  everything she  could to negotiate with the  U.S. administration through her province's  office in Washington. Mrs. Smith held the  news conference from Washington,  D.C., where she has  met with  several U.S. governors,  senators and business leaders  in recent days. She asked all premiers to do the  same, as there will be a new prime minister in 47 days and  possibly a new prime minister shortly  after. Given the rapid  pace of the federal government,  the premiers will be the only  consistent voices in  the negotiations.
Although she is the prime minister, Smith  has made it clear that she  is negotiating for all Canadians and  is not seeking a specific  exemption for her province alone.
Smith's negotiations  to keep Canada tariff-free have focused on the mutually beneficial relationship between the two  countries and  the fact that the United States has a $58 billion trade  surplus, excluding energy,  as confirmed by the National Bank of  Canada report.
A day before meeting with reporters, Smith issued a press release  outlining six steps the country could take to avoid future  tariffs. One suggestion was to restore immigration levels to those  of former Prime Minister Stephen  Harper.
Before Trump's inauguration, Smith reiterated  his call for a federal election and proposed  harnessing Canada's energy to  address the  threat.
Whether the tariffs  are imposed on  February 1 or  April 1, as the  order suggests, Smith  reiterated his preference for a cooperative approach  rather than a retaliatory one. It had previously refused to support a potential export tax on  Alberta's energy.  After a meeting between the country's premiers and the prime minister last Wednesday, Alberta  abstained from signing the joint statement  outlining proposed retaliatory measures to Trump's tariffs.  All other  premiers and Trudeau  have signed  it.
Trudeau recently said he supports  harmonizing tariffs with  those of the  United States.
Ms. Smith explained that  the Canadian economy is one-tenth the size of the  United States and that Canada is much more  dependent on its  southern partner than vice  versa.
"Trying to  fight a tariff war without addressing the underlying issues is not going to  work well for Canada,"  Smith said. Despite Ms. Smith's  hesitation, an Ipsos poll  conducted the same day as her  news conference  found that 82% of Canadians support  imposing retaliatory  tariffs.
However, she said she  did not rule based on opinion  polls.

"It's a relationship that's  been going on for over 100  years." We  have fights from time to  time. "But you don't  end a 100-year relationship over a temporary  issue," Smith said. "You  need to identify the issues that are causing the  irritation and then  address them one  by one."
Instead of fighting, Smith wants to double oil production and pipeline capacity. She wants to get as many projects  off the  ground as possible during this  four-year administration before a potential change in government and energy  management leads to  the abandonment of projects like what  happened with Keystone XL.

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