The political temperature in Ottawa appears to be hot.

A pipeline that doesn’t even exist and isn’t even close to existing and politicians and insiders in Liberal Ottawa are all over the map on this one.

A pipeline Alberta wants, a pipeline Alberta Premier Danielle Smith wants — some in the nation’s capital can’t stomach the thought, including people who call themselves Liberals, who quietly call themselves Trudeau Liberals.

Others, you can see them seated in the House of Commons across from Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberal minions, consider the prime minister to be full of crap, a man not to be trusted.

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They are called Conservatives.

They have a point. After all, Carney has an extremely hard time giving a straight simple answer to straight simple questions. He refuses to speak in direct sentences.

And what the man says he can seemingly contradict and then contradict the contradiction while sure not liking to answer questions.

He is the bossman and we are the hired hands.

By the time you read this sentence, Carney will either be on his way to Calgary or he will be here already.

At this neck of the snowy woods, Premier Danielle Smith will be ready to ink an agreement, a deal, a pact with Carney.

The Smith-Carney pact will be presented as paving the way for a bitumen oil........

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