“It was a good week,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told me Thursday with a big smile on her face.

A good week is an understatement.

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Over the previous week, Smith stood with Prime Minister Mark Carney and announced a new southern pipeline route to Canada’s Pacific coast. A few days later, she stood at the podium with Ontario Premier Doug Ford and announced a feasibility study for a 3,300-km pipeline from Hardisty, Alta., to Sarnia, Ont., one that would be entirely Canadian-built and remain wholly within Canada.

Finally, her government landed one of the largest private-sector investments in Canadian history with Meta’s announcement of a $13-billion data centre and electricity-generation project for Sturgeon County, just north of Edmonton.

“We’re trying to demonstrate that we are turning a page on those 10 bad years, and we hope that this is a new relationship we can build with Canada so that we can start building again,” Smith said.

Foolish to underestimate Smith

Smith, and these announcements, aren’t without detractors.

The pipeline to the West Coast will, at this point, be funded by governments and, while there are private-sector partners involved,........

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