Incoming U.S. president Joe Biden will be making a serious economic and strategic error that will damage Canada-U.S. relations if he revokes the construction permit for the Keystone XL pipeline this week, the Alberta premier says.

All we ask, at this point, is that president-elect Biden show Canada the respect to actually sit down and hear our case about how we can be partners in prosperity, partners in combating climate change, partners in energy security, Jason Kenney told reporters Monday in Calgary.

Kenney was reacting to reports, based on transition documents seen by The Canadian Press, that Biden will sign an executive order after he is inaugurated Wednesday to scrap the construction permit for TC Energy Corp.s pipeline, granted in 2017 by Donald Trump.