All options including export bans on the table to fight U.S. tariffs: B.C. minister [Video]

B.C. remains open to “all different options” in the fight against U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats, according to the province’s jobs and economic development minister.

The comments come after Alberta Premier Danielle Smith travelled to Florida, where she met with Trump over the weekend.

“B.C. is very aware of the impact of tariffs because of softwood lumber and our wood industry. We know how decimated our communities have been in the north,” Jobs, Economic Development and Innovation Minister Diana Gibson told Global News.

“We know we need to fight the tariffs if they are coming with every strategy we have, so in B.C. all options are on the table right now.”

Asked about the potential for Canada to use more hardball options, such as restricting U.S. access to products from Teck Resource’s smelter in Trail, B.C., Gibson said the province is looking at all options.

“Certainly export bans like that are on the table,” …