Is the BC NDP government willing to consider a new oil pipeline to the West Coast as part of Canada’s national economic response to American tariffs?

The answer, from Premier David Eby, depended on when you asked Thursday.

When sitting beside other premiers at the closing media event of the Western Premiers’ Conference in Yellowknife, Eby and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith contorted themselves into verbal pretzels to appear supportive of each other’s positions on pipelines.

Eby at one point shot down the issue as a future hypothetical notion not worth discussion—as if new oil pipelines were not part of a recent separatism ultimatum from Alberta and a perpetual sore point between the two provinces dating back to when Eby as attorney general tried to block the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion in court.

“If Premier Smith is able to convince the federal government to build another pipeline through British Columbia, or a private proponent, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it,” said Eby.

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