Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says China’s latest trade measures against Canada are part of a strategy meant to divide the country for the benefit of Beijing.
“I think the Chinese have been very targeted and direct in how they’re trying to split our country up,” Smith said at an unrelated press conference on May 1, when asked about measures her government was taking to protect canola producers in the province.
“I can tell you that all of the western premiers who have a large canola industry in their provinces, and that is regardless of political stripe, have raised it directly with the prime minister.”…