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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith met twice with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump in Florida this weekend to try and persuade him not to impose hefty tariffs on Canadian goods.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IiuuQawB8g

 

Alberta's Next Steps w/ David Parker, Tim Hoven & Douglas Galavan

The Lavigne Show Live 
 
Apr 24, 2025 
Alberta’s Next Steps 
Recorded on Tuesday, April 22 · 2 PM
 at The Bourbon House Tex-Mex Cantina, Drayton Valley 
 
With the federal ballots counted the night before, Alberta will wake up on April 29 facing the same question: Now what? Independent broadcaster 
 
Jason Lavigne gathers three unapologetic freedom advocates to map out the next move, whether Parliament is red or blue. 
 
The voices in the room 
 
David Parker – Founder of Take Back Alberta and mastermind of the grassroots push that forced Jason Kenney out. Parker argues you don’t always need a formal referendum if the governing party can be bent to its members’ will. 
 
Tim Hoven – Former Reeve of Clearwater County who ran as an Independent after being bounced from a UCP nomination. Hoven brings a cautionary tale about what happens when party gatekeepers silence local voices, and why rural constituents won’t let it slide. 
 
Douglas Galavan – Long-time Drayton Valley activist, Rally Canada organizer and 2019 PPC candidate. Galavan voices the “pain before gain” view: Alberta must brace for short-term hardship if it truly wants out from under Ottawa’s thumb. 
 
Conversation points 
 
The morning after – What immediate levers can Alberta’s government—and its citizens, pull, no matter who forms Canada’s next government? 
 
Inside vs. outside pressure – Parker’s change-the-party plan contrasted with Hoven’s independent run and Galavan’s street-level activism. 
 
Referendum, rebellion, or reform? – Do Albertans need a sovereignty vote, or simply leaders with the backbone to act? 
 
Bring your toughest questions, grab a taco, and join the debate on how Alberta turns talk of self-determination into concrete action.

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Vote Canadian: A 22 Minutes Election Special

22 Minutes 
 
Apr 24, 2025 
This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Canada’s longest-running TV comedy series, takes on the federal election in a one-hour special this week that gives audiences a hilarious close-up look at the candidates and their quirks. Filmed before a live studio audience in Halifax with segments from across the country, VOTE CANADIAN: A 22 MINUTES ELECTION SPECIAL features appearances by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Bloc Quebecois candidate Rose Lessard, Green Party Co-Leaders Elizabeth May and Jonathan Pedneault, a classic 22 Minutes drop-in at the Federal Leaders’ Debate — and Mark Critch has coffee with Liberal Leader Mark Carney.

 



Is there animosity between PC premiers and Poilievre? Bureau chiefs panel – April 25, 2025

cpac 
 
Apr 25, 2025 
The CBC and the Globe and Mail reported on Thursday that there is tension between the camps of Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. Frictions have also been reported numerous times in the media between Poilievre and Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Is Poilievre and his campaign manager Jenni Byrne burning bridges with Progressive Conservative premiers? CPAC’s Michael Serapio discusses the issue with bureau chiefs Bob Fife (The Globe and Mail), Tonda MacCharles (Toronto Star) and Joël-Denis Bellavance (La Presse) 
 
We also talk with our panel about the accusations against Mark Carney of misrepresenting his March phone call with President Trump, as well as what to look out for in the last days of the federal election campaign.


 
 

Poilievre 'in for a very tough fight' in his riding | Robert Fife

CTV News 
 
Apr 25, 2025
The Globe and Mail's Robert Fife discusses polling numbers in the final days of the campaign, and the seemingly tight race in Poilievre's riding.
 

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Methinks Robert Fife should read his emails N'esy Pas?
 
 

 

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Trump blows up the notion his Canada talk was just a fleeting fancy

'I'm really not trolling,' he tells Time Magazine, of his dream to make Canada a state

Trump 'not trolling' when he says Canada should be a 51st state, he tells Time
 
U.S. President Donald Trump insisted 'I'm really not trolling,' when he says Canada should be his country's 51st state in a newly released interview with Time Magazine.

There's been no shortage of speculation about how U.S. President Donald Trump's comments about Canada might impact the federal election.

It's now time to start asking a new, longer-term question: About how his attitude will impact Canada beyond Monday's election.

It now seems increasingly obvious that Trump's expansionist aspirations are no fleeting fancy. He kept quiet for a while, leading some to wonder whether he'd gotten it out of his system — that maybe he was just simply trolling our former prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

But in recent days, the president has been blunt in different encounters with media that he seriously would love to see Canada become a state. 

Lest anyone think he might be joking, he made clear he wasn't. Time magazine asked him in an interview: Maybe you're trolling a bit when talking about Canada as 51st state.

"Actually, no, I'm not," he told Time in an interview conducted Tuesday, and published Friday.

"I'm really not trolling. Canada is an interesting case.…  I say the only way this thing really works is for Canada to become a state."

He repeated his oft-stated claim about the U.S. subsidizing Canada, restating figures that appear to take the trade deficit, add Canada's under-spending on defence and wildly exaggerate that total sum.

Asked if he wanted to grow the American empire, as part of his talk about Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal, Trump replied, "If we had the right opportunity. Yeah." 

Asked again if he wanted to be remembered as a president who expanded American territory, he replied, "Wouldn't mind."

WATCH | Trump returns with 51st state rhetoric, days before election: 
 
Trump raises 51st state rhetoric days before Canadians vote
 
Party leaders respond to U.S. President Donald Trump's fresh claims on Canada's sovereignty and auto industry. We have the latest from our reporters following Day 33 of the campaign. Plus, how do the platforms compare on housing? We ask two experts for their review.

At this point, it's no longer tenable to assume the president is just joking, says one of the best-connected Canadians in Washington. After all, Trump even put his desire for territorial expansion in his inaugural address. 

"Nobody says something repeatedly for months of this nature without believing it," said Eric Miller, an international trade consultant in Washington and adviser on Canada-U.S. relations.

He said Trump believes two things: that the U.S. doesn't need Canada under their current economic arrangement, and that he wishes he could acquire it.

How, when, under what conditions and how determined he is to put the effort into making this happen — all of that's unclear, Miller said.

"I don't think there's a master plan right now which says, 'Three months from now we will do X, and six months from now we will do Y,'" Miller said. 

"But the desire is clearly there.… Certainly this is going to be a top priority for the next prime minister.

"It will be an issue that the next government in Canada will constantly have to monitor. And they will have to assess what President Trump's intentions are over time, because his interest and his intentions may evolve over time."

The challenge for Canada's next government

There will be early points of contact between the next government and Trump. For starters, there's the G7 summit in Alberta in June. The countries are also set to enter comprehensive trade and security negotiations.

For a while, it seemed plausible that these events might unfold without Trump disparaging, and calling into question, Canada's sovereignty.

After all, he'd stopped talking about Canada as the 51st state for a few weeks, since Mark Carney replaced Trudeau as prime minister and Liberal leader last month.

After their first phone call, Carney said Trump had respected Canada's sovereignty in that conversation. But it turns out there was more to the story.

WATCH | More details on Carney and Trump's phone call: 
 
Carney grilled after confirming Trump raised ‘51st state’ idea during call
 
Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s political rivals swiftly attacked after he confirmed U.S. President Donald Trump raised the idea of Canada as the 51st state during a phone call last month that Carney had previously described as a ‘constructive’ conversation between two sovereign nations.

The first indication this was merely a temporary pause in his rhetoric came in a comment from the White House press secretary: Karoline Leavitt told a CBC reporter that Trump still believed in making Canada a state.

Then he said it again to other reporters in the Oval Office. Then again to Time Magazine, when asked about it, insisting he wasn't joking.

And this week Radio-Canada reported that — Carney's public statement notwithstanding — Trump indeed mentioned wanting to make Canada the 51st state in their call last month.

When asked on the campaign trail about the discrepancy, Carney insists he wasn't lying about his previous statement that Trump had respected Canada's sovereignty; the Liberal leader said they'd had the conversation as two sovereign nations.

Still, in response to questions Friday about the Time interview, Carney acknowledged that something has changed between the countries.

"The president's latest comments are more proof, as if we needed any, that the old relationship with the United States that we've had is over," the Liberal leader told reporters in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., using a line he first said last month.

"And it's proof, it's a reminder, it's a call to action that we need to chart a new path. That's the new reality."

Awkward G7 incoming

What's yet to be determined is whether managing Trump's aspirations will be Carney's challenge, after Monday's election — or Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's.

But they'll be busy soon thereafter, preparing for a highly unusual G7. On Canadian soil, with Trump as their guest.

Miller's advice? In public comments, welcome Trump to Canada. Don't publicly back him into a corner. In private, spell out clear consequences for threats to Canada's sovereignty.

Meanwhile, work with the other G7 countries. Miller proposes a group statement reaffirming the principle of national sovereignty. Then release that statement, with or without the signature of the United States.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alexander Panetta is a Washington-based correspondent for CBC News who has covered American politics and Canada-U.S. issues since 2013. He previously worked in Ottawa, Quebec City and internationally, reporting on politics, conflict, disaster and the Montreal Expos.

 

 

 

Struggle for a Border: Canada's Relations with the United States

1969
9 films 

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Why are there just two nations occupying that enormous expanse of the North American continent north of the Rio Grande? Why not just one unlimited American empire? Or why not several nations? This unique work gives clear and vivid form to the immense and complex forces--economic, political, military, diplomatic, social, and geographic--that created and confirmed the U.S.-Canada border. The largest single work ever undertaken by the National Film Board of Canada, Stuggle for a Border is the result of painstaking scholarship and research, and imaginative filmmaking. Each of the nine one-hour films is entirely self-contained, though part of a larger continuity. There are no interviews, but an on-screen narrator provides commentary and perspective. The films are so constructed that, if need be, they may be shown in half-hour, or shorter, segments.

 

 

 
 

Struggle for a Border: Canada's Relations With the U.S.

US National Archives 
 
Oct 13, 2010 
 
Details the history of Canada's relationship with the United States, focusing especially on the border between them. 
 
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USE RESTRICTIONS NOTE: Issued February 6, 1990, this law provides for the domestic release and distribution of USIA motion pictures, films, videotapes, and other materials 12 years after initial dissemination overseas, or, if not disseminated, 12 years from the preparation of the material. 
 
NOTE: A DVD of this film can be ordered from our partner, Amazon.com/NATIONALARCHIVES. 
A DVD of this film is ALSO available for viewing and copying free of charge in the NARA Research Room in the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD. 
 
Struggle for a Border: Canada&#39;s Relations With the U.S.

Struggle for a Border: Canada's Relations With the U.S.


FormatNTSC
Runtime58 minutes
Number Of Discs1
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We can’t connect to the server at arcweb.archives.gov.

 

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Struggle For a Border- Canada’s relations with The United States

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This feature documentary addresses the struggle between New England and New France, from the first uneasy contacts to the culminating conflicts. The economic battle between the St. Lawrence trade system and that of the Atlantic-Hudson is also explored. 
 
NFB - 1967 
| Director - Ronald Dick, Pierre L'Amare 
| Producer - Nicholas Balla 
| Narrator - J. Frank Willis Canada 
 
| New England | New France | Economics | Trade | Conflict | Politics
57:26
This feature documentary recounts the opposition between American revolutionaries and Canadian communities settled along the St. Lawrence River during the period leading up to the American Revolution. The flames of rebellion spread northward but Canada resisted encroachment.
This feature-length documentary looks at the Canadian-British-American struggle for the Ohio valley during the War of 1812, and how it contributed to American and Canadian nationalism. It also examines a few of the myths that emerged from the war with a very sardonic eye.

Creation of Canada - Part 4 - Dangerous Decades (1818-1846)


This documentary, part of a series from the late 1960s, focuses on the contest for the continental interior. It examines the American advantages and the problems plaguing Canada internally. It also looks at the Oregon and Maine boundaries, American anti-monarchism, and a potential sign of a "transcontinental nation to come." 
  
In this installment of a documentary series from the late 1960s, we survey the period between 1840 and 1860. Canada considers its options—annexation, continentalism, free trade, and economic nationalism—while the "one continent, one nation, one flag" ideology enjoys strong support on both sides of the border.
This documentary explores the years following Canadian Confederation, a delicate period in regard to American attitudes towards Canada. This was a critical time for the two countries, and the complex diplomacy of the Treaty of Washington is brought to life. 
Canada struggles to preserve her borders after the Treaty of Washington in this feature documentary. The country's survival as a nation independent of the United States rests in the balance, as the film shows in its exploration of historical context, underlying factors, and possible alternatives. 
 
Please note that this film was produced in 1969 and reflects the attitudes and thinking of its era. To modern audiences, parts of the film may be perceived as offensive, but it must be seen as a cultural product of the era in which it was produced. The perspectives of Canadians (and the NFB) have evolved and become more conscious of Indigenous rights, realities and points of view since the making of the film. Most notably, through its rich collection of Indigenous-made films, available at Indigenous Cinema , the NFB continues to strive to challenge stereotypes and accurately depict the diverse experiences of Indigenous peoples.
 
 
Brian Macdonald (left), the Chair of the New Brunswick War of 1812 Provincial Commemorations Committee, welcomed everyone to the New Brunswick War of 1812 Provincial Commemorations Event. This event was a partnership project of New Brunswick’s War of 1812 Provincial Commemorations Committee and the St. John River Society.
 
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Pierre Poilievre holds rally in Fredericton – March 31, 2025

cpac 
 
Mar 31, 2025  
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre addresses supporters at a campaign rally in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He is joined by his wife Anaida Poilievre and Brian MacDonald, Conservative candidate for Fredericton—Oromocto.
 
 
 
 

Mark Carney holds rally in Fredericton – April 21, 2025

cpac 
 
Apr 21, 2025  
Liberal Leader Mark Carney addresses supporters at a campaign rally in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He is joined by New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt and David Myles, Liberal candidate for Fredericton—Oromocto.
 
 
 

Elizabeth May on the campaign trail | Day 13

CBC News 
 
Sep 23, 2019 
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May makes an announcement and takes questions in Fredericton, N.B. To read more: http://cbc.ca/
  



Elizabeth May: “We’re going to elect more Greens than we ever had before” – April 23, 2025

 
Apr 23, 2025 
While discussing national polls with CPAC’s Michael Serapio, Green Party Co-Leader Elizabeth May says the numbers “never reflect the strength we have in local ridings.” She also calls the decision by the Leaders’ Debates Commission to exclude her party from last week’s debates a “blow” that was “unfair.”
 
 
 


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Sparks and smiles at Fredericton candidates' debate

Liberal, Conservative, NDP, and Green talk about the big issues, trade shots

Competing visions for the future of Canada were on full display at a Fredericton-Oromocto federal election candidates’ debate on Tuesday, with Liberal David Myles and Conservative Brian Macdonald verbally squaring off.

The debate, held at the Cyber Centre in Fredericton’s Knowledge Park, a business tech hub, saw Macdonald, Myles, Green Pam Allen-LeBlanc and the NDP’s Nicki Lyons-Macfarlane face questions for about an hour.

Topics discussed included the trade war, housing, immigration, the “knowledge economy,” and trade and population growth.

Myles mentioned Liberal Leader Mark Carney five times; Macdonald didn’t mention Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, but did take one stab at Carney.

It was generally a friendly affair, but sparks flew a few times.

The first topic of discussion was about the housing crisis, and how Ottawa can help address the housing crisis.

Myles applauded the Liberals’ plan, which would see Ottawa “getting into the business of home building … and taking that initiative like they did after the Second World War.”

Macdonald replied that while he has personal respect for Myles, the idea of government stepping into the real estate market highlights “our different ideological perspectives” and “makes my skin crawl.”

“You know, those of you that have studied economics or know anything about economics … if the demand is there, often the supply comes to meet it, and if it doesn’t, there’s something in the way. And what’s in the way of home building in Canada is government,” Macdonald said.

That theme, of government “getting out of the way,” was one Macdonald returned to several times.

When asked about how a Conservative government would accelerate urban development, Macdonald began his reply by noting that “I do believe the government needs to get out of the way.”

He did it a third time when the candidates were asked about how their party’s government would grow the “knowledge economy.” Drawing on his experience as a businessman, Macdonald complained that many sectors are highly regulated.

“One of the things we need to do to encourage growth …  (is to reduce) red tape, reduction in bureaucracy,” he said, also advocating for tax cuts to help businesses grow.

That’s when Myles chose to hit back, and used the business tech venue to make his argument.

“You know, this is one of those things where I’m not sure anybody in this room or in the tech sector … in Fredericton would say the government should get out of the way,” Myles said.

“Would it exist if the government got out of the way, if it wasn’t for the fact that government worked with private industry? It was a partnership.

“I haven’t been reading about this for very long, but I have looked into it enough to know that public money was invested in all of this. This was a plan that was built out for a long time. Government can do things that private industry won’t do. It’s not to say that you don’t need both. You want a thriving private sector.”

Allen-LeBlanc, meanwhile, accused both big parties of making “reckless and irresponsible decisions for a very long time now, and I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of it.”

“Our kids don’t have the same opportunities that we had,” Allen-LeBlanc said.

“We are pumping billions of dollars into foreign-owned oil and gas corporations, large corporations. Well, your tax rate has not been lowered. Consecutive Conservative and Liberal governments have favoured their friends in the large corporations, and we have tax loopholes for billionaires that have to be closed.”

Lyons-Macfarlane’s best moment came shortly after Macdonald said a Conservative government will move harm reduction clinics, which he said he calls “harm multiplication clinics,” away from core city areas.

“We’re going to make sure that those clinics are not near schools, they’re not near parks, and we’re also going to make sure that there’s care available for people that are suffering from addiction,” Macdonald said.

“Shutting down safe injection sites isn’t going to solve anything,” Lyons-Macfarlane told Macdonald. “We cannot force people into addictions treatment. It is a collaborative effort. It’s mental health care. It is physical health care.”

 

 

Trump rhetoric on disputed N.B.-Maine waters ‘reprehensible’: Holt

An executive order aims to deregulate the U.S. fishing industry, while Trump brings up fishing waters between New Brunswick and Maine

Machias Seal Island is a remote, rocky island in the Bay of Fundy off New Brunswick’s southwest coast. The roughly 550 metre-long and 250 metre-wide island remains in a longstanding sovereignty dispute between Canada and the United States.SUBMITTED

An executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump that aims to deregulate the U.S. fishing industry is concerning, says Premier Susan Holt.

That’s as the president’s rhetoric on the fishing waters between New Brunswick and Maine are “reprehensible,” Holt adds.

The premier’s words come after Trump signed a raft of executive orders late last week in the oval office in efforts to boost commercial fishing, although primarily aimed at doing away with a protected area near the U.S. territory of American Samoa, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

But a final executive order claimed that the American seafood industry as a whole is “dramatically” over regulated. That’s while also alleging unfair trading practices from foreign partners, although without specifics.

That prompted U.S .Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to say that the United States imports more seafood than it exports.

“Can you imagine that? We import seafood, and we have the greatest coasts and fishing in the world,” Lutick said.

It then spurred Trump to bring up Maine, alleging that Maine lobstermen can’t fish in areas off its coast that Canadian fishermen can.

“The Maine lobster,” Trump said. “You can’t get Maine lobsters…

“So Maine’s forced to go for days out to some other area that’s not as good. We have to free that up, too.”

He added: “Canada fishes there and we’re not allowed to.”

The words appear aimed at the disputed waters around Machias Seal Island, a remote, rocky island in the Bay of Fundy off New Brunswick’s southwest coast. The roughly 550 metre-long and 250 metre-wide island remains in a longstanding sovereignty dispute between Canada and the United States.

In 1832, New Brunswick built a lighthouse on the island to physically stake its claim, and it remains the only lighthouse in the Maritimes with a full time keeper, partly to maintain that ownership.

That said, every once in a while the dispute over the island and surrounding waters heats up.

A 110-square-mile area around Machias Seal Island is considered a “grey zone” where both Canadian and U.S. lobster fishers set traps, but with different rules.

Americans accuse the Canadians of operating under a different, more accommodating set of rules that allow them to catch larger lobsters.

Canadians counter that the Americans have higher catch limits and often don’t follow established boundary lines.

Just last year, New Brunswick’s Fundy North Fishermen’s Association alleged that Maine fishers were crossing into Canadian waters near New Brunswick to poach lobster in the absence of federal enforcement.

“We’re quite concerned about it,” Holt said, when asked about Trump’s executive order, the premier noting that New Brunswick fishermen and women in that area are “responsible,” while potentially fearing the opposite from American counterparts.

“We think some of the rhetoric from the president has been reprehensible,” she added. “So we are doing the work to make sure that we can support and defend our fishers’ interests in that area.

“It has been something that has been debated and disputed for some time, but New Brunswick fishermen and women have the right and earn a livelihood in fishing those waters and we’re going to make sure they can continue to do so safely and freely going forward.”

Asked exactly what the province is doing to ensure New Brunswick fishermen aren’t being put at a disadvantage, and whether Trump’s words could amount to an annexation threat, Holt said the provincial government is seeking clarity.

“As with anything that President Trump says, you have to dig in to try to find the reality in all of it, because often sometimes the rhetoric doesn’t match what is real and what are the rules,” Holt said.

“And so we are working to understand what exactly he’s proposing to do, and whether he can do that, while making sure we have all our ducks in a row so that we can strongly and forcefully defend our interests in that space.”

While signing the order, Trump alleged he changed the rules in that region during his first presidency, but while suggesting support for the Maine lobster industry lapsed during the Biden administration.

“That’s why we have to stay president for a long time,” he added.

The new executive order specifically calls for the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to immediately consider suspending, revising or rescinding regulations that overly burden America’s commercial fishing, aquaculture and fish processing industries.

It gives 30 days to do so.

It also calls for a review of all geographic limits on commercial fishing, including protected areas, within 180 days of the order.

It claims that nearly 90 per cent of seafood on American shelves “is now imported, and the seafood trade deficit stands at over $20 billion.”

In a statement, the New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association said Trump’s order “commits the (U.S.) federal government to improving our competitiveness in international markets.”

“The order breaks with decades of overregulation that has crushed working families in maritime communities,” it adds.

That’s while stating “the gray zone has always been an issue.”

Meanwhile, there are concerns south of the border both with the legality of the order and its environmental fallout.

“What we do know is executive orders tend to be unlawful and create a lot of chaos,” Conservation Law Foundation Senior Counsel Erica Fuller told CBS news WGME in Portland, Maine.

The Conservation Law Foundation is concerned about the impact of deregulation on endangered species like right whales.

“You still get other whales entangled in weak rope, and they can’t all break free,” Fuller said. “If it becomes a wild west on the water, it’s also going to harm the lobster fishery itself and the coastal communities that depend upon it.”

 

 

 


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