Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told MPs at a parliamentary committee that nearly all ambassadors she meets in her capacity as her government’s international affairs minister show a “very high level of interest” in Canadian energy exports.
“I meet regularly with ambassadors, and virtually every person I have met with has said, ‘How can we get more reliable energy from Canada?’” Smith told the House of Commons Environment Committee on Oct. 23.
The Alberta premier said the Trans Mountain Pipeline now exports the majority of Alberta’s oil westward to Asian markets, despite initial expectations that the bulk of the oil would go south to the United States….