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Opinion: The new Alberta-Ottawa agreement to do nothing in particular

In the followup to their fall MOU, Ottawa and Alberta forge another agreement to agree to things in the future, but without details on how

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The firm handshake and big smiles of Danielle Smith and Mark Carney and the celebratory media coverage attending their signing ceremony earlier this month all gave the impression the two leaders had finally signed a binding agreement that will result in the construction of a bitumen pipeline from Alberta to Canada’s West Coast. How wrong the journalists were! They either didn’t read what had been signed or didn’t understand it.

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