How does Alberta Premier Danielle Smith feel after rolling out Alberta’s pipeline pitch?

“I feel gratified. I’ll feel even more gratified once we start getting shovels in the ground and people can see this thing is going to get built,” the premier tells your scribbler right after her announcement in Calgary with Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Alberta’s proposal would see a pipeline built to B.C.’s west coast just south of Vancouver. The Alberta government, the federal government, Pembina Pipeline and Indigenous groups would have a stake in the project.

Smith says the pipeline will create many jobs as well as lots of cash for the Alberta government.

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When asked what turned the tide from the bad old days, where Alberta always hit a brick wall with Liberal Ottawa, the premier gave much of the credit to Canadians.

“We took our case to the people,” says Smith.

“What you saw is Canadians rooting for us. We made the case we were being treated unfairly and 75 per cent of Canadians agree with........

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