Trump threat vaults energy policy to center stage in Canada election

FILE PHOTO: Conservative Party of Canada's leader Pierre Poilievre speaks to the media inside an under-construction building during a campaign stop in Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 21, 2025. REUTERS/Arlyn McAdorey/File Photo

CALGARY (Reuters) -An unusual consensus around energy policy has emerged in the campaign ahead of Canada's April 28 election, with the two main candidates both promising to fast track energy projects to diversify oil exports away from the United States.

U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats and talk of annexing Canada as the 51st state sparked a national conversation around energy supplies in the world's No. 4 oil exporter.