1) Kenney knows that countervailing tariffs in this situation would be counter-productive, expensive for us, and ultimately ineffective.

See: https://twitter.com/jengerson/status/1352286834374529025?s=20 https://twitter.com/jkenney/status/1352291284912754691

2) He's whining about the federal government's decision not to use them in a non-comparable situation because it's the only play this government seems to have.

3) Kenney has no allies, no chips, and no successes to his name since he was elected. He falls back on whining about how unfair Alberta has it because he doesn't know how to win.

I go back to my original point: This is not working. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/road-ahead-alberta-ucp-jason-kenney-how-is-it-going-1.5882168

4) We're going ride-or-die on a failing strategy.