The Prime Minister of Alberta, Danielle Smith, went to the air on Saturday for her bihebdomedary radio program “ province, your Prime Minister ” which is broadcast on Corus Radio, a division of Corus Entertainment.
During the one hour program, Smith took questions and calls from Albertains through the province. The subjects went from her recent trip to Florida where she sat with the right -wing podcastor Ben Shapiro during a private fundraising event in interprorvincial trade and with an increasing number of measles.
Smith defended his trip to Florida, saying that talking to the American influencers and supporters of US President Donald Trump is the best way to get his message across.
“Any work that we can do collectively to minimize, reduce or delay the prices is good for all of us,” Smith told Wayne Nelson host. “He (Shapiro) devoted all his podcast to talk about the terrible price for American companies … and that’s what we wanted to accomplish.”
This feeling is good, but these are other partisan reasons behind Smith’s messaging, like his interview on March 8 with the right media Breitbart, who denounced the Prime Minister a lot.
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“She said to the administration (United States),” stops prices “. Not because it is the right thing to do – what is – but it founded it out of partisan interest, “said political scientist of the Royal University, Duane Bratt. “Then she continued by saying that this hurts the conservatives and you prefer to have Pierre Hairyvre as chief of Canada, because he is more in line with the Trump agenda.”
In addition to that, Smith was also criticized so as not to be on board with the approach to a Canada to combat American prices because of his request that oil and gas exports be exempt from any reprisals. Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the newly elected Liberal chief Mark Carney said it wouldn’t happen.
Without this exemption, Alberta deficit forecasts could further increase, according to Bratt. “We are planning a deficit of $ 5 billion due to the impact of prices,” he said. “This deficit could reach $ 10 billion.”
According to Smith, Alberta loses $ 700 million for each dollar, the price of oil decreases below its reference and the dollar differential between Western Canada (WCS) and the intermediary of West Texas (WTI). So, if the price of oil goes from $ 68 per barrel to $ 66 per barrel, the result is a budget deficit of $ 1.4 billion.
During its radio broadcast, Smith said that it hoped that discussions on the reduction of interprint trade barriers could help compensate for this pain.
“We all agreed that we were going to work on economic corridors to put our product on the market,” said Smith. “Oil, gas, transmission lines, roads, broadband, railway lines, new port infrastructure … I am delighted to see that at the subnational level, we have the unit on this subject.”
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