Trump tariff: Scott Moe pushes against use of export taxes [Video]

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to publicly say that export taxes will not be used as a retaliatory measure should U.S. president-elect Donald Trump impose a 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian imports, arguing that there are “other ways for us to have an impact.”

“I’m asking very publicly for the prime minister to publicly state, should we ever consider tariffing the production of Canadians, that would be a betrayal of those that work in the industry,” Moe said in an interview with CTV Question Period airing Sunday. “That would be a betrayal of the Team Canada effort, and it’d be a betrayal of Canadians as well.”

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Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on Canada and …