Alberta's Energy Minister Sonya Savage and Prime Minister Jason Kenney have proposed supplying Canadian oil to the US instead of Russian oil because of the situation around Ukraine.

“Does the US want to replace Russian barrels with Venezuelan ones? You can’t think of something like that on purpose: harsh times require harsh decisions. A reminder of the folly of the energy policy of the last decade. Canada, with the third-largest reserves, could supply the US and the world,” Savage wrote on Twitter.

For his part, Kenney said the United States plans to replace Russian oil exports with imports of the resource from the "Iranian and Venezuelan dictatorships" after the lifting of sanctions.

The politician said Alberta residents would welcome a visit from US President Joe Biden.

“We could discuss the delivery of approximately 1 million barrels a day of responsibly produced energy from the closest friend and ally of the United States,” Kenney said, adding that the blockade of the Keystone XL pipeline at the Canada-US border must first be lifted.