Smith slams U.S. tariff imposition

The tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump are an unjustifiable economic attack on Canadians and Albertans. They also represent a clear breach of the trade agreement signed by this same U.S. President during his first term. These tariffs will hurt the American people, driving up costs for fuel, food, vehicles, housing and many other products. They will also cost hundreds of thousands of American and Canadian jobs. This policy is both foolish and a failure in every regard.

This is not the way it should be between two of the world’s strongest trading allies and partners. We would much rather be working with the U.S. on mutually beneficial trade deals than be caught in the middle of a tariff war.

Alberta fully supports the federal response announced today by the Prime Minister. I will be meeting with my cabinet today and tomorrow to discuss Alberta’s response to these illegal tariffs, which we will announce publicly.

Now is the time for us to unite as a province and a country. We must do everything in our collective power to immediately tear down provincial trade barriers and fast-track the construction of dozens of resource projects, from pipelines to LNG facilities to critical minerals projects. We must strengthen our trade ties throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas for all our energy, agricultural and manufactured products. We also need to drastically increase military spending to ensure we can protect our nation. There is no time to waste on any of these initiatives.

Danielle Smith,
Premier of Alberta

One response to “Smith slams U.S. tariff imposition”

1. Fedup Conservative says:

   March 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM

   When did Danielle Smith become so concerned about jobs when she has been firing people right and left and supporting Pierre Poilievre who has promised to scrap the CBC and its 9,429 jobs? Not to mention the 24,000 Smith destroyed by not allowing the $33 billion investment in Green Energy in Alberta that she cancelled. Along with members of the RCMP that she wants to kick out.

   The conservative MLAs that I got to know when Lougheed’s energy minister Bill Dickie was a brother in-law of one of my uncles taught me to never trust a Reformer they destroy jobs and not create them and that’s exactly what Smith has been doing and Poilievre is promising to do along with the Carbon Tax that we know is putting money into the pockets of people who desperately need it and 27 countries have adopted it because they know it works.

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