While the Republicans at the state level in Alaska are working on confirming their close relationship with Canada in the middle of the trade war and the threat of the annexation of US President Donald Trump, a senator from Alaska has warned the Prime Minister of British Columbia that “they do not want to lie with Alaska”.
Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan from the Republican Party made the comments in an interview with an interview posted on his Facebook page.
During the conversation that touched the topics from energy development to Ukraine, Sullivan, one of two senators who represented the state in Washington, asked about BC in which laws were introduced that have the opportunity to raise new fees for US commercial cars that drive to Alaska.
“I don’t know the Prime Minister of the various provinces, but it is a dangerous game,” said Sullivan, before starting his wish, either over the Senate or through the Executive Order of Trump, the passenger shipping service Act.
According to the law, foreign ships must not carry passengers between two US ports without a stopover in a foreign country. The law is intended to protect US shipping interests, similar to the Jones Act, which uses the same rules for cargo ships.
Many cruise ships bound in Alaska hold vancouver in BC, but also Nanano, Victoria and Prince Rupert-and bring the province of the province considerable income.
Sullivan says he would like to see that this rule would be lifted and noticed that this was done when Covid-19 restrictions were present.
“Canada, you don’t want to lie with Alaska. And if you do this, we will work hard to deal with our cruise ships your ports, and that will help our economy enormously,” said Sullivan. “You play a dangerous game here and I hope you are back down.”
“We can’t imagine Alaska without Canada”
BC Prime Minister David Eb said that he has no current plans to fulfill toll fees, but he wants the ability to do this if Trump escalated his actions against Canada.
“We wouldn’t make that easy,” he told reporters on Friday. “We know that the consequences for Alaskans are a big deal. We would expect to react to benefits in kind. Commerce wars only violate people.”
He hopes that Alaskaner will worry about the consequences of a trade war.
“We need Alaskan to send Donald Trump a message about how we are with us, about the connections between our economies,” he said.
This news was heard in Alaska’s state captain on Friday afternoon when Republican MP Chuck Kopp brought in a House Joint Resolution. Recognize and honor of the relationship between Canada and Alaska, What he described as “unreserved confirmation of the strong ties of friendship, the common history, the mutual defense and the support that have bound our state to Canada for centuries”.
An almost identical joint resolution of the Senate also moves through the Alaska Senate, which is sponsored by the Republican Cathy Giessel, which has also spoken out against the trade war.
“The friendship, the trust and affection we have for our Canadian neighbors extends to their identity as a citizen of the sovereign nation of Canada,” said Kopp at the meeting on Friday and indicated a map of the two countries. “We can’t imagine Alaska without Canada.”
Kopp and several other speakers raised the joint effort for the construction of the Alaska Highway from Nord -BC to Alaska during the Second World War as well as the number of families and friendships that include both sides of the border.
Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai, the President of the Arctic Winter Games and several members of the Skagway border community, Alaska, was also invited.
Skagway Vice-Mayor-Deb Potter asked the politicians to “think of Alaskan about their party”, and encouraged them to confirm the resolution that is still moving through the house.
Kopp said he hoped that the news from the Alaskans would be heard by the powers that are elsewhere in the United States.
“The temperature increases on the basis of the economic reasons between the countries,” he said. “This resolution recognizes that relationships are important and are sometimes far more important than perhaps the almighty dollar.”
