Danielle Smith opens Alberta representative office in Ottawa

https://tnc.news/2024/02/05/danielle-smith-opens-alberta-office-ottawa/

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her new special envoy to Ottawa are encouraging other provinces to join them and set up shop in the nation’s capital.

James Carpenter has been appointed as Alberta’s senior representative to the federal government as the province reopens an Ottawa office for the first time in nine years.

In a press conference Monday morning, Smith encouraged other provinces to follow Alberta’s lead.

“You could probably talk to any premier. I don’t think any one of them has a very positive or constructive relationship with the federal government right now for the same reasons that we do,” Smith said from Ottawa. “It doesn’t matter what the political stripe is.”