WINNIPEG — Manitoba is renewing its call for a national electricity grid that would move more power between provinces and territories and help the province's exports.

Premier Wab Kinew says it's a good time to build domestic energy transmission in an era of economic threats from the United States.

A national grid would need federal money, and Manitoba is signing on to an Ontario-led memorandum calling for the project.

Kinew says now that the federal government has struck a deal with Alberta on a potential new oil pipeline, it would be good for Ottawa to help expand hydroelectric transmission that's good for the environment.

Crown-owned Manitoba Hydro already exports power to some areas in Ontario, Saskatchewan and the United States.

But the utility has warned it needs new power genera

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