Bell: Smith's warning — Trump wants action at border, stop doing a victory dance
'Everybody should stop doing a victory dance,' says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to her fellow Canadians

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On this day, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith warns Canadians.
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Smith has warned Canadians many times before.
Some listen.
Some do not listen.
The ones who do not listen really don’t listen and tell you they are not listening and also say everyone who is listening to Smith is a lower form of life.
Or worse.
And if the one who listens to Smith is?from Alberta, double worse.
Meanwhile, some folks in this country are doing high-fives today, somehow believing they beat Trump, they showed Trump who has the upper hand.
They showed Trump who was boss.
“Everybody should stop doing a victory dance,” says the premier, as Canada dodges a tariff hit from U.S. President Donald Trump for a month.
“It’s dangerous to be talking that way. It’s dangerous to be scaling up and escalating the rhetoric.”’
Premier Smith, it’s been all about scaling up and escalating the rhetoric from some individuals.
“Let’s give our heads a shake and realize this is serious. If you read the wrong message out of why we got a reprieve you’re going to make mistakes,” says Smith.
What is the message from Trump and the Americans?
“We know what they want is action on fentanyl. The message is they believe we’re taking their desire to stop the flow of fentanyl into their country seriously. That’s it. We’ve got to make good on that now.
“Unfortunately, everybody has been trying to downplay that as an issue.
“Downplaying it and pretending it’s about something else is going to land us 30 days from now exactly where we were on Monday.
“If everybody is trying to make the issue into something else, they don’t have their eye on the prize and there’s a real danger the tariffs will come back.
“Don’t do it.”
But you know the?story from the self-styled smart set of what happened Monday when Trump said Yes to another 30 days without tariffs.
Someone should turn it into a theatre production and apply to Ottawa for a government grant.
In their minds, Trump feels?weak, vulnerable, under attack in his own country, sensing?a storm brewing on his side of the border, the word tariff no longer the most beautiful word in his dictionary but now the most horrible one.
In this drama, Trump reaches out to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The American president is looking for a way out, searching for an off-ramp and a face-saving win.
Trudeau, the knight in far from shining armour, rides to the rescue and to the acclaim of Canadians.
The prime minister presents a border plan and his supporters wink at each other and say it’s more like a plate of warmed-up leftovers.

As the story goes, they’re not really giving the president?anything.
They’re pulling a fast one on Trump. They believe the president and his team are dimwits and will take it.
And the president of the United States accepts the scraps.
Trump blinks. Trump caves. There’s the headline.
Really?
So what is the real story according to Premier Smith. It’s far less theatrical.
“The real story is that Trudeau finally put something on the table that gave some confidence to the Americans that it would address the flow of fentanyl and migrants across the border.”
Smith says the situation on our side of the border is “pretty darn bad.”
And this is after almost a decade of Trudeau running the show.
Quite a show.
Smith goes over some of the acts.
Fentanyl super labs, vehicles and containers coming across without being analyzed, a bank fined for laundering money, casinos busted for laundering money.
Trudeau tells Trump he will declare cartels terrorist groups.
He will name a fentanyl czar to lead the charge against the killer drug.
Reports say this position was only presented by Trudeau to Trump on Monday afternoon.
That late? Did Trudeau have to sweeten the pot to get a deal?
Doesn’t sound like Trump was weak, after all.
Some even report the fentanyl czar offer to Trump may have saved the day and scored the 30-day pause from tariffs.

Skill-testing question. Who proposed Canada name?a border czar to show Trump we meant business? Who said that would work for Trump?
Premier Smith.
We all know about a new intelligence directive on organized crime and fentanyl is backed up with $200 million.
There are 10,000 people who will be working to protect the border and there will be?a Canadian-American strike force to combat?organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering.
“All of that fully persuaded the Americans we are serious about addressing their number one concern,” says Smith.
Now it’s time for the Canadian government to bring in their hurry-up offence.
After all, Smith says Trump?is all about “don’t tell me, show me.”
Over to you, Mr. Prime Minister.
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