Jenny Minello

Doug Ford’s message to Washington: try running cars without Canadian oil, try growing food without potash. Input leverage is real. So is the larger map. Most Canadian goods exports still go south. Interdependence is not the same as equal dependence — and retaliatory tariffs still land on your own buyers when you impose them. Geography and market size don’t disappear because the press conference got sharper. bbc.com/news/videos/cx2zgr42…

Here’s Alberta Premier Danielle Smith telling her fellow Canadians to turn down the rhetoric. Refreshing to hear a politician use basic logic and second-order reasoning instead of a 10-second soundbite. If Ottawa plays the oil card, the second move hits eastern fuel and the tax cushion — not just Alberta pride.