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Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith are all set up for their showdown — after the April 28 election if the Liberals win
Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith are all set up for their showdown — after the April 28 election if the Liberals win
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There is appearance and there is reality.
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Don’t think Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is somehow playing nice with Liberal Leader Mark Carney.
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She is not.
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There is a federal election nearing the homestretch.
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The Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre still have a shot at coming out on top.
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So Smith holds her fire.
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For the next few days do not expect the Alberta premier to talk about a national unity crisis if Carney and the Liberals are elected.
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The Conservatives and Liberals can duke it out.
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But make no mistake, if the Carney Liberals are elected and don’t reverse course on the many Liberal laws and rules and regulations damaging Alberta, the battle lines will be drawn and we will all have to stay tuned.
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Remember Smith met Carney and presented him with nine demands, nine harmful Liberal moves the premier wants to see deep-sixed.
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So far, Smith is batting 0-for-9.
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In fact, in Calgary, Carney dismissed Smith’s demands in half a sentence telling us he had his own plans.
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Carney also gave no commitment that oil and gas pipelines or LNG projects would be part of the big building schemes he has on his radar.
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Then this week in Quebec and in French Carney talks about new projects but not necessarily pipelines.
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“We’ll see,” says the Liberal Leader.
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Just weeks ago he said Canada needed pipelines.
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On social media Smith says Carney’s latest song-and-dance is out of tune and out of step.
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No new pipelines is “absurd, irrational and anti-Canadian.”
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That about sums it up.
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Poilievre of the Conservatives, on the other hand, backs pipelines 110 per cent and always has supported them “to take back our economy from the Americans.”
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“We can’t afford a fourth term of giving Americans energy on the cheap.”
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Oh, you can point to polls saying Canadians want to see pipelines built but a lot of those pro-pipeline Canadians are probably planning to vote for Carney and the Liberals.
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A party infamous for blocking pipelines and passing anti-oil and gas laws.
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They just don’t connect the dots.
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Just like Ontario Premier Doug Ford wants pipelines running every which way connecting Alberta oil to the world.
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But Ford is a big fan of Carney and has dissed Poilievre publicly.
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On Tuesday, Smith once again talks about her nine demands for Carney, if he wins the election.