
Saskatchewan has cards to play: Moe on tariffs and Trump
In one of his first public appearances since the start of the on and off tariff war between Canada and the United States, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe pointed out that when it comes to things like potash and uranium, the province has cards to play.
He was asked, should tariffs continue if potash and uranium – two of Saskatchewan’s biggest exports – would be on the table as bargaining chips.
“Saskatchewan has a significant cards to play, if we’re going to start talking about what we’re providing,” Moe said. “90 per cent of the nine million tons of potash that go to the United States of America come from this province. If they want to buy that somewhere else, the next place you can get it is Russia and you can’t actually get it up the Mississippi into where it’s needed for corn,” he said.
He pointed out that the other resources that get sent south of the border include $15 billion of oil and the uranium mined in the northwest corner of the province that powers one in 17 homes in the United States.