Juno News - February 22, 2025
Danielle Smith reveals that Donald Trump does, in fact, want to buy Canadian oil and gas
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Summary
Learn English with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau met with President Donald Trump at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany earlier this month. In that meeting, he met with the president and asked him about Canadian oil and gas exports.
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the evening that you met President Trump, he was in the ballroom, there's hundreds of people there,
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everyone wants to talk to the President. And he, President Trump walked into the room, this is
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according to the recounting by Rick Bell, and he said that President Trump beelined to you,
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that he was so keen and so interested in talking to him, pleased to meet you, that he went right
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to you. And I, you know, I think that that really shows Premier how serious he is about trying to
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improve the relationships with Canada and trying to make a deal with us? Well, I had let a few
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members of the administration know that I was going to be there. And so they put in a word to
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let the president know. And I was pleased that he was able to come over and share a few words.
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What I wanted to know, because we had heard a lot of discussion in the press about, I think he had
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just recently said, we don't need Canada. We don't need your autos. We don't need your timber. We
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don't need your oil and gas. And I thought, well, is that really true? Does he really not want our
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oil and gas? And I wanted to get to the bottom of whether or not that was the case. And so I asked
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him pretty frankly, do you want to buy more oil and gas from Canada? And he told me yes. So that
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says to me that whatever our current issues that we have with the president are, I think that we
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can begin the discussion once again of how Canada can assist with American energy dominance.