At the Western Premiers’ meeting, B.C.’s Eby and Manitoba’s Kinew pressed her on the duty to consult First Nations on the pipeline. Smith agrees on that point: “On a major project like a pipeline to the West Coast, absolutely, we have a duty to consult — and beyond that, we think we have a duty to provide equity ownership so the Nations can benefit from development. There’s no dispute, for me, for proponents, on that.”