Look out, Canada, here comes a reinvigorated Danielle Smith.

Or as Premier Smith put it in her victory speech Monday, “Hopefully the prime minister and his caucus are watching tonight.”

Smith’s statement wasn’t just a shot across the Liberal government’s bow but a promise — a threat, really — to immediately start a fight with Ottawa over the proposed introduction of an emissions cap on oil and gas as well as regulations on power plants fuelled by natural gas.