HOUSTON — She was the Lady in Red.
Notwithstanding that Texas is a Republican state (meaning red), Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was wearing her Team Canada colours — with a 'u' — as she spoke to an audience of the world's largest oil executives.
She had barely taken her seat when conference chairman and Pulitzer Prize winning author Daniel Yergin asked the question on everyone's minds and lips during the five-day affair in the oil capital of the world.
“I can’t resist and am in fact required to start by asking Danielle (Smith): What do you think of the tariffs?”
“I don’t like ‘em,” she shot back, to nervous laughter from the near-packed room.
The first five minutes of the 40-minute session were taken up with a passionate defence of continental energy cooperation and her attempts to find a ‘diplomatic’ solution to what she framed as an impasse between Washington and Ottawa.
The Red Coats are coming!