Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said she’s open to using drones to help patrol the Canada-US border that her province shares with Montana.

Premiers held an emergency meeting with the Trudeau Government on Wednesday to discuss how to deal with US President-elect Donald Trump’s 25% tariff threat on all goods unless border security is strengthened.  

Following the meeting, Smith said “Alberta will be acting urgently and decisively to patrol our own shared border with Montana, with more details to be announced soon in that regard.”

In other words, Smith is open to doing Trudeau’s job for him, if necessary.

The Premier told reporters earlier this week that she would be encouraging Prime Minister Trudeau to increase border patrol, or use drones to monitor activity.  

“The provinces have been raising for some time their concern that the actions of this government were wrecking our relationship with the United States and wrecking our trade relationship,” Smith said. 

Smith also acknowledged that the feds need to do more to prevent illegal crossings into the U.S., improve on catching drug smugglers crossing the border, and invest 2% of Canada’s gross domestic product on defence, as agreed by NATO allies.

On Thursday, federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre noted that Premiers like Smith are stepping up because the Trudeau Government has failed to do their job.

“Because Trudeau has so thoroughly broken the border, we’re getting a patch work of Premier who have no choice but to try and hold the border together with bubble gum, scotch tape, and elastic bands.” 

Since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been in office, the Government of Canada has deported just 9,194 illegal citizens or failed asylum seekers, out of nearly half a million asylum claims. 

This year alone, 21,000 citizens have been caught by US Border Patrol illegally crossing from Canada into the U.S.