As state-level Republicans in Alaska work to affirm their close relationship with Canada amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war and threats of annexation, an Alaskan senator has warned British Columbia’s premier that “you don’t want to mess with Alaska.”
Dan Sullivan of the Republican Party, who represents Alaska in the U.S. Senate, made the remarks in an interview with an Anchorage radio station posted to his Facebook page.
During the conversation, which touched on topics ranging from energy development to Ukraine, Sullivan, one of two senators who represent the state in Washington, was asked about B.C. introducing legislation that grants the province the ability to levy new fees on U.S. commercial trucks heading to Alaska.
Big deal. I heard they all live in igloos.
In northern Canada we have 63 names for “Trump”.
There is a town in Alaska that on the boarder, they have no access to anything other than some town in the Yukon, although they are in the US they use the Canadian dollar and celebrate Canada Day. It is unlike Robert’s Point or whatever that towns name in Washington state that is practically a suburb of Vancouver if I understand it correctly. Or the Canadian island in New Brunswick that has an unreliable fairy to the mainland and a bridge into New York.
American exceptionalism again. Nobody’s touching Alaska this is a change in BC, a Canadian fucking province that has until recently made certain allowances for American travel
Exactly. How dare we …not…sell…OUR…Electricity! And how DARE we put tarriffs on things because the US put tarriffs on things first?!
Isn’t American known for its rugged individualism? They don’t need Canada, why would they use our roads or dare inconvenience themselves crossing into/out of our border?!!
This reminds me of the sov cit movement. Children with no understanding of the amount of effort and cooperation required for a functional society.
They could also avoid the Canadian fees by using ships but the US has the Jones Act which increases the cost of contiguous States shipping to non-contiguous States like Alaska. So their own government has already messed with Alaska which is why they truck shipments through Canada in the first place.
Fuck Alaska! Don’t like it? Go around.
Thing is it is kinda hard to go around, when the US has made some fairly stupid laws about shipping things in the US, and it is impractical to fly most of the things in.
