Alberta's full-court press in Washington delivers the province's energy message to ordinary Americans

摘要

With the prosaic wisdom that is the purview of taxi drivers the world over, the Washington cabbie remarked that the proximity of Canada's embassy to the U.S. Capitol Building must obviously symbolize the great ties between the two countries.But, not intimately familiar with this country's federal structure, he wasn't entirely sure why a province like Alberta had set up shop within the Canadian embassy. Unable to find a parallel with an individual American state taking its relationship with its northern neighbour so seriously that it sought permanent representation abroad, the cabbie was left to comment on the multitude of Albertans who streamed through Washington en masse in early July.