{"id":30336,"date":"2025-01-13T05:15:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T05:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/canadian-leader-meets-with-trump-at-mar-a-lago-to-discusses-energy-relationship\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T05:15:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T05:15:53","slug":"canadian-leader-meets-with-trump-at-mar-a-lago-to-discusses-energy-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/canadian-leader-meets-with-trump-at-mar-a-lago-to-discusses-energy-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian leader meets with Trump at Mar-a-Lago to discusses energy relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alberta Premier<\/a> Danielle Smith and President-elect Trump met on Saturday and discussed the “mutual importance” of a U.S.-Canadian energy relationship and the hundreds of thousands of American jobs supported through Albertan exports.<\/p>\n

“Over the last 24 hours I had the opportunity to meet President [Trump] at Mar-a-Lago last night and at his golf club this morning,” Smith wrote in a post on X. “We had a friendly and constructive conversation during which I emphasized the mutual importance of the U.S. – Canadian energy relationship, and specifically, how hundreds of thousands of American jobs are supported by energy exports from Alberta.”<\/p>\n

She continued, saying she had similar discussions with “several key allies” of Trump\u2019s incoming administration in which she became encouraged to hear about their support for “a strong energy and security relationship with Canada.”<\/p>\n

“On behalf of Albertans, I will continue to engage in constructive dialogue and diplomacy with the incoming administration and elected federal and state officials from both parties, and will do all I can to further Alberta\u2019s and Canada\u2019s interests,” Smith said. “The United States and Canada are both proud and independent nations with one of the most important security alliances on earth and the largest economic partnership in history. We need to preserve our independence while we grow this critical partnership for the benefit of Canadians and Americans for generations to come.”<\/p>\n

INFLUENTIAL LEADER OF CANADA’S ONTARIO PROVINCE SEEKS TRUMP, MUSK MEETING: US \u2018NEEDS US LIKE WE NEED THEM\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Smith posted about the meeting on X, nearly a week after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation amid growing pressure from within his own Liberal Party and heightened criticisms over his handling of the economy and threats levied by Trump.<\/p>\n

However, as Trudeau announced on Monday his plan to resign as prime minister once the Liberal Party that he leads chooses his successor, the biggest pushback to Trump\u2019s pitch to annex Canada<\/a> \u2013 and his planned 25% tariffs on exports from the country \u2013 has come from the premier of Canada\u2019s most populous province, Ontario.<\/p>\n

JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S RESIGNATION MET WITH GLEEFUL REACTION FROM CONSERVATIVES ONLINE: \u2018THE WINNING CONTINUES!\u2019<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Doug Ford, a former businessman and conservative who has served as Ontario\u2019s 26th premier since 2018, told Fox News Digital in an interview that the president-elect\u2019s targeting Canada is both “crazy” and “ridiculous.”<\/p>\n

TRUMP REACTS TO TRUDEAU RESIGNATION: \u2018MANY PEOPLE IN CANADA LOVE BEING THE 51ST STATE\u2019<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

He said the bilateral focus should be on “strengthening” what the Canadian government calls a nearly\u00a0trillion-dollar two-way trade relationship<\/a> to “make the U.S. and Canada the richest and most prosperous jurisdiction in the world.”<\/p>\n

The president-elect has been trolling Canada in recent weeks, floating the idea of it becoming the 51st state and posting a doctored photo of him standing beside a Canadian flag on top of a mountain.<\/p>\n

Trump has also been pushing for Denmark to sell the North Atlantic island of Greenland to the U.S.<\/p>\n

Fox News’ Christopher Guly contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and President-elect Trump met on Saturday and discussed the “mutual importance” of a U.S.-Canadian energy relationship and the hundreds of thousands of American jobs supported through Albertan exports. “Over the last 24 hours I had the opportunity to meet President [Trump] at Mar-a-Lago last night and at his golf club this … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}