Alberta, Saskatchewan Won’t Respond to Trump Tariffs With Counter-Levies

But Canada’s two largest oil and gas producing provinces vow to find ‘other markets’ for exports that Asian and European nations are clamoring for.

CERAWeek by S&P Global attendees tour Canada House in the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston on March 11, 2024. John Haughey/The Epoch Times

HOUSTON—Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada’s largest natural gas and oil producers, will not retaliate as Ontario did in responding to President Donald Trump’s threats to impose 25-percent tariffs on steel and aluminum beginning March 12 and on all Canadian imports starting April 2, the provinces’ energy ministers said Tuesday.

“We want to de-escalate” the brewing trade war, Alberta Minister of Energy and Minerals Brian Jean told reporters during a press conference at CERAWeek by S&P Global at the Americas Hilton-Houston.