It was an objectively good week last week, not only for Alberta’s economic prospects but also for the cause of keeping Alberta as a province in Canada.

There’s still much work to be done, but it was a major step forward for the proposed new Pacific Link pipeline to the West Coast, with the official federal designation that the project is in the national interest — the first major project to receive this designation, created under the Building Canada Act.

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith stood shoulder-to-shoulder in Fort McMurray to announce this key milestone and talk about the value and opportunity this project will create for the province and for the country. Both also held this up as an example of the benefits of co-operative federalism and the kind of win-win projects that are possible through partnership.

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But the prime minister wasn’t the only federal leader weighing in on all of this last week. It was a tale of three leaders, with one doing some meaningful heavy lifting and two others ultimately being less than........

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