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Les Leyne: Pipeline argument looms over legislature agenda

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09.10.2025

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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