Danielle Smith

A whole lot of work has to happen in the background, and literally under the ground, before the first shovel ever breaks the surface.

Builders can only build when the infrastructure is there to support new communities,

That's not going to happen," Smith said on Tuesday.

You go into negotiation talking about a win-win.

The prime minister is being very wise to say let’s deal with the (negotiating) stages as they come.

We’re counting down the days with this new deadline. It sounds like a level of intensity is going to increase to try to get to the finish line on that.

I would rather negotiate with diplomacy rather than 'threatening to punch someone in the nose.'

Eventually we think it will have an impact on the decision makers and that’s that’s the approach we want to stick with.

The approach that we’ve got to take has got to be measured. We’ve got to be calm about it. We can’t get overly emotional about it, and we’ve just got to work through the sectoral issues one by one.

People should understand that the Americans have not banned a single product from Canada from going into the United States, so it’s a pretty extraordinary measure to put a ban in place.

I prefer to stay calm and win the hearts and minds of Americans instead of retaliating with an alcohol ban.

We know what the irritants are from the American point of view. We also know some of the things that would be beneficial to the American economy.