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Old 01-16-2025, 09:15 AM   #18213
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Originally Posted by Monahammer View Post
I had an interesting debate with a friend yesterday. Both of us are not UCP supporters, but he argued that Danielle may actually be pursuing the best policy for Alberta specifically in this fight. I am not sure I agree but here are his points:

1. American oil producers don't want tariffs on Canadian oil either, and will be putting pressure on trump to avoid tariffs on this product.
2. Trump wants to follow through on his total tariff as much as possible to maintain his strong man, #### your global order and rules image and not break from that image immediately.
3. Trump has shown to be generous to sycophants. In fact, he loves having smoke blown up his ass and only thinks favorably of people with orange lips.
4. Danielle is putting on quite the rim job show, and pushing from the other end of oil execs.

Yes, it is very distasteful stuff. But if Oil, or oil and gas generally, can avoid th 25% tariff then Alberta will avoid an economic disaster.

I am not convinced it will work but I can see why someone might think it will.
I would assume the majority of US companies do not want Canadian tariffs given that a large majority is raw materials. Even autos - its not like these vehicles are made by some Canadian independent. They are Fords, Chevs, and Dodge
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