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Originally Posted by BoLevi
Smith to Trump: "Your goal and Alberta's goal is to keep oil land gas flowing into the US as cheaply as possible. So exempt our oil and gas from your tariffs, and you will continue to have cheap energy. If you want to negotiate a trade deal against the rest of Canada on things that are actually important to you, using tariffs on other goods, then that is up to you."
Trump: "What if the feds slap an export tax on oil and gas?"
Smith: "I have already publicly stated that we view that as unconstitutional and we would create a constitutional crisis. You would be in an even better position."
Federal Gov't: "We would like to use Alberta energy as a negotiating tool, but we would really prefer not to create a constitutional crisis."
Smith: "Sounds good, federal gov't, here's the list of powers we want the federal gov't to permanently concede to the provinces...."
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Your fanfic is getting more and more boring.