Doug Ford wants a headline and attention. Scott Moe wants Canadians to keep their jobs

Hours apart, two western premiers had to get in front of cameras and say it out loud: you will not tax our oil, you will not cut off our potash, you will not use our workers as a bargaining chip. That is not teamwork. That is a distress flare.

Ask yourself why they had to do it.

Because they were never in the room when it counted. The last year of this fight was built around Ontario autos, Quebec industry, B.C. lumber and electricity. Those are the provinces that feed the current government its votes. Alberta and Saskatchewan only became “Canada’s leverage” after the talks collapsed and somebody in the East needed a line that sounded tough.

Then Ford starts talking about killing the U.S. farm sector overnight. Then LeBlanc waves oil and potash around on American TV like they are props. Then the same political class that spent years making western energy harder to build suddenly discovers it is national treasure — right when they want to spend it.

Smith and Moe didn’t hold those press conferences for optics.
Hours apart, two western premiers had to get in front of cameras and say it out loud: you will not tax our oil, you will not cut off our potash, you will not use our workers as a bargaining chip. That is not teamwork.… https://t.co/URoBVsZgGL

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