The Manitoba government hopes the federal government will get on board with a national electricity grid to “Trump-proof” the Canadian economy.

Premier Wab Kinew announced Friday Manitoba signed on to an Ontario-led memorandum of understanding calling for the project.

Kinew said he wants to see more east-west power sharing, instead of north-south to the United States, but federal money is needed to proceed.

“Pipelines make Albertans rich, but transmission lines make Manitobans rich,” he said at a news conference. “(The federal government has) the big chequebook, if we want to build that transmission line to northern Saskatchewan, to northern Alberta, to help decarbonize oil and gas in Canada, this is the time to do it.”

On Thursday, Ottawa signed a memorandum with Alberta to grow that p

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