Les Leyne: Pipeline argument looms over legislature agenda
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s accusation Tuesday that Premier David Eby is being “un-Canadian” in dismissing her oil pipeline idea is dead wrong.
It’s as Canadian as all get out to have provinces fighting each other over resource issues while appealing for a prime minister to sort things out.
This latest classic example of Confederation in action could come to a head by Grey Cup day, Nov. 16, the date Smith arbitrarily set for Prime Minister Mark Carney to make the next move.
It could make for quite a half-time show.
Carney has to determine whether his emergency nation-building program to counter U.S. threats includes a multi-billion-dollar north coast pipeline project that has already foundered more than once, has to run through an assortment of First Nation objections and reconciliation protocols, and exists only in........
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