It's been a week since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States and he created plenty of stirs both on the positive and negative side.

When it comes to Canada and more specifically the Foothills riding it's a glass half full situation.

MP John Barlow says he's cautiously optimistic for Trump's run as President and says he has some key ideologies that Albertans will agree with.

"Locally time will tell what the direct impact will be on a Trump government in the United States," he says. "But I think the biggest thing for us in Alberta is that you have a president that comes out publicly saying he does not support a carbon tax and he's going to pull out of the Paris accord."

At the same time while there is no support for the carbon tax and the Paris Accord, Barlow says with Canada about accept both of those pieces of legislation it will be tough to deal with when it comes to trade.

"For Canadians and Albertans to not have the United States have a carbon tax but us go ahead with a carbon tax it is going to make us globally un-competitive in manufacturing, certainly agriculture, the energy sector. It just doesn't make sense for us to be pushing forward with these kinds of policies."

Barlow says when it does come to the energy sector, the delayed Keystone XL pipeline deal with our neighbours south of border might brought back to the bargaining table.

"For him to say he supports Keystone XL that's going to be an advantage to Alberta. It's 800,000 barrels of oil a day if we go through that pipeline, it's certainly going to be a boost for Alberta's economy, certainly get some unemployed energy workers back on the job which I think is important."

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