The survey, conducted by Nanos Research for CTV News and The Globe and Mail, found more than two-thirds of people in the Prairies support putting tariffs on oil, natural gas and electricity.
“Well, I think it’s a garbage poll,” Smith said at an unrelated press conference on Tuesday.
“What if we were to ask Albertans or Canadians this: ‘Would you support export tariffs if it meant the U.S. would retaliate by shutting off Line 5 and leaving Ontario and Quebec without gasoline or aviation fuel at all?’ I think you’d get a different answer.”
So in your view a poll on the attitudes of Canadians to oil and gas tariffs should ask only Canadians who have worked for many years in the oil and gas industry? That’s not a poll of Canadians, that’s a poll of the oil and gas industry.
They’re joking.
I do hope so. It’s so hard to tell these days.
You can tell I’m not very good at thinking like Danielle Smith because I called it the “fossil fuel industry.” In fact I am known to hold extremist views, such as that we should stop using oil and gas.