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Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall refuses to contemplate how the provincial government would work with its southern neighbour if controversial Republican candidate Donald Trump is elected president of the United States.

“We shouldn’t get ahead of ourselves, because I have great hope that that hypothetical will never happen,” Wall told reporters Monday in Saskatoon.

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He described Trump’s campaign — which has included promises to build a wall along the Mexico-United States border, bring back waterboarding and deport Muslims from the country — as “absolutely terrible.”

“It’s hard to believe that it’s garnering the kind of support that it is,” Wall said. “Canadians are watching a bit dumbfounded that there’s actually a politician who’s gaining some sort of modicum of success by the things he’s saying and what he’s offering.”

Wall’s campaign will be considerably shorter than Trump’s months-long one; he is expected to drop the provincial election writ Tuesday to kick off a 28-day campaign in advance of the April 4 election.

Two polls in the last three weeks have indicated Wall’s Saskatchewan Party is poised to comfortably take a majority.