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Q&A: Why Alberta Premier Danielle Smith agrees with Trump about border issues in
trade spat | CBC News Loaded
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Q&A: WHY ALBERTA PREMIER DANIELLE SMITH AGREES WITH TRUMP ABOUT BORDER ISSUES IN
TRADE SPAT
In a year-end interview, Smith reflected on pressing issues and said her next
steps will be revealed in the government’s budget, set to be tabled on Feb. 27.
PREMIER ALSO SAID REFORMING HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM WILL TAKE STRAIN OFF HOSPITALS
Janet French · CBC News · Posted: Dec 26, 2024 1:00 AM PST | Last Updated:
December 26
In a year-end interview with CBC Edmonton, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith talked
about convincing Americans about their dependence on Canadian energy to stave
off steep tariffs threatened by president-elect Donald Trump. (Sam Martin/CBC)
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's 2024 was a year of following through on her
promises — from health-care reforms to support for the oil and gas industry —
even as her opponents fought her ideas.
In a year-end interview at the legislature in early December, Smith reflected on
a few pressing issues.
The Alberta government's next steps, she said, will be revealed in the
provincial budget, set to be tabled on Feb. 27.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
After U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened a 25 per cent tariff on
Canadian goods, you supported his concern that the Canada- U.S. border is too
porous to drugs and migrants. Can you elaborate on your position?
The issue we face in Western Canada is clearly the drug overdose problem, and
it's gotten even more acute post-COVID-19. Product is coming in from British
Columbia and then finding its way down into the United States through Alberta,
or precursors are coming into Alberta and then finding their way back into the
United States.
We identified this problem years ago. Mike Ellis, my public safety minister, had
already begun the process of training up a team of sheriffs that could be
deployed for border patrol and addressing the fentanyl issue. It just seemed
like, yup, this is a problem. That's a problem for us. It's a problem for the
Americans. Let's solve it.
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leaders
PROTECTING ALBERTA FROM OUTSIDE INTERESTS
You have expressed concerns about Ottawa imposing on Alberta's jurisdiction;
some people perceived Trump's tariff messaging in the same vein. How are you
protecting Alberta's interests from foreign governments?
We've made no secret about our disappointment with the federal approach to
addressing the issue of drug overdose and crime. They brought through a
bill that created a revolving door of criminals and we've been working on trying
to get that tightened up. It hasn't worked.
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We also vehemently oppose their approach on safe supply. We don't think that the
way that you get people off drugs is to put more high-powered opioids into the
market.
I'm glad that the federal government is now beginning to see that there are
consequences to the policies that they've adopted. Now they have to align with
the things that we want to do to preserve our trade relationship — which is the
most important trade relationship, probably, on the planet.
What I think we can do in Alberta is talk to the Americans about how we jointly
benefit from our cross-border trade. We can use oil and gas as a point of
leverage to say, because of this strong relationship, all Canadian goods should
be tariff-free.
REFORMING THE HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM
You're restructuring Alberta Health Services with a goal of improving care. How
did you get to the idea of restructuring AHS by function?
It came from looking into the system and trying to figure out what is the core
business that Alberta Health Services is supposed to be delivering. And the
answer was, everything. And if everything is your core business, then it's
really hard to get a focus.
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overhaul continues
We just kept finding little problems that were occurring because there wasn't
dedicated interest in each of these different aspects of health care. We wanted
Alberta Health Services to focus on hospitals. They should deliver the very best
acute care because they manage the bulk of our hospital facilities.
So, who's going to deal with the doctors and the nurse practitioner contract,
and pharmacy? A lot of that was already in the [provincial health] department.
But some of those functions had to be brought into the new entities.
Alberta Minister of Health Adriana LaGrange is leading the restructuring of
health-care delivery in Alberta. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)
The plan would create four agencies responsible for primary care, acute care,
continuing care, and mental health and addiction. Do other jurisdictions divide
it up that way? What did they achieve?
A lot of hospitals have become the only door that people can enter into our
system.
If Alberta Health Services manages everything, all of that comes into the
hospital. And so you have people who have very complex needs, [such as] seniors
with mental health issues, maybe even addiction issues. This is the most
expensive bed that they're in — a $2,500-a-day bed.
Patients need to have care in the right place, by the right practitioner. And
that's why we're dividing it into the four service provision areas. I think that
our staff within Alberta Health Services will be much happier in returning the
hospitals to their original function, which is that acute care function.
LISTENING TO ALBERTANS
Your supporters love that you take the time to listen to them. How do some of
their concerns go on to become government policy?
Since I completed my economics degree, I got into property rights advocacy, then
became a business advocate, advocacy journalist, as well as a talk show host and
TV show host. And you just talk to hundreds of people who have good ideas.
Our process is to listen to everyone. We believe that the private sector
creating good jobs is good for everybody because it creates tax revenue for us
to care for the most vulnerable.
WATCH | Smith aims to fight tariffs by selling Americans on Alberta oil and
gas:
Why Premier Danielle Smith agrees with Trump on border woes
20 hours ago
Duration 6:34
Premier Danielle Smith says convincing Americans of their dependence on Alberta
oil and gas is the key to staving off U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's tariff
plan. In a year-end interview, Smith also says she's restructuring Alberta
Health Services in an effort to keep people who don't need urgent care out of
hospitals.
* Alberta tech minister wants $100B in AI data centre infrastructure built over
next 5 years
We recently announced our [artificial intelligence] data centre policy. That was
something that I wasn't even talking about two years ago. People kept asking us
whether there would be an appetite for this. My minister put together a working
group of seven or eight other ministers to figure out the different pieces of it
— municipal taxes, energy, electricity, gas, water and cooling location — and it
culminated in a policy.
When you hear from enough people that there's an issue that needs provincial
attention, we give it the attention, so that we can get the best answers and
move quickly on implementing them.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Janet French
Provincial affairs reporter
Janet French covers the Alberta Legislature for CBC Edmonton. She previously
spent 15 years working at newspapers, including the Edmonton Journal and
Saskatoon StarPhoenix. You can reach her at janet.french@cbc.ca.
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