By Paul Vieira
OTTAWA--Canada should brace for tariffs on all U.S.-bound exports, including crude oil and energy products, starting on Jan. 20, says the premier of the country's resource-rich province of Alberta, after meeting President-elect Donald Trump and his senior aides over the weekend.
"I'm not expecting any exemptions. I'm expecting that we're going to have a lot of work to do in arguing why this special relationship that we have with the United States should continue," Danielle Smith told reporters on Monday, after she spent part of the weekend at Trump's club in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
She said she expects Canada to retaliate with its own set of tariffs against U.S. imports, but warned of repercussions for the Canadian economy. Canadian officials are preparing a list of retaliatory tariffs against U.S. imports.
"I feel like it would be mutually damaging to have 25% tariffs across the board on U.S. goods coming into Canada that would harm Canadian citizens at a time when we have an affordability crisis," she said. "We are the ones who [will be] really harmed if we try to get into any kind of prolonged trade and tariff war."
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