Julia Wong, CBC News »

The unexpected trip cost $10,101.87 and included three others — one of whom flew home in business class.

The trip, which Smith announced shortly after the fact on social media, prompted criticism that she was not part of the unified “Team Canada” response to the threat of Trump’s tariffs.

Smith was the only premier who visited Trump’s golf club at the time and has previously said they had a “constructive” conversation in which she “emphasized the mutual importance of the U.S.-Canadian energy relationship.”