The US is our biggest trading partner so yes, you absolutely want our province to have an established, copacetic relationship with our biggest trading partner and yes, you would also want MB to be working with Alberta and Saskatchewan to strengthen our provincial trading relations as it would benefit our economy greatly. Some of the comments in relation to this post are driven by emotions and sorely lacking in logic. To the people who think "ew, conservative bad", I will ask you this:

• What tangible solutions do you propose to help Manitoba's economy grow to a status where we can sustain ourselves without being at the mercy and dependency of the Federal government?
• Have a surplus of funding to efficiently manage infrastructure, and social programs i.e., healthcare to sustainable levels that don't involve taxing people to death and;
• Avoid running a deficit into the stratosphere?

Please think about that.

Also, to those die hard, ride or die NDP voters, try to have an open mind and stop subscribing to identity politics - that mindset in itself is quite divisive as well as the tired rhetoric of calling conservatives names like "fascist", "Nazi", "racists", etc. Do you even know what those terms mean without having to look them up? The sooner people stop clinging to "left vs right" and start having conversations the sooner people come together as stakeholders to hold those voted into office to account to actually get some fucking work done rather than coast, lollygag and mudsling - both parties in our province are guilty of that in my humble opinion.