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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith hasn’t scored a pipeline but she’s willing to work with Prime Minister Carney, saying he is nothing like Justin Trudeau
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith hasn’t scored a pipeline but she’s willing to work with Prime Minister Carney, saying he is nothing like Justin Trudeau
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Truth be told this is not a column where the headline is shouting outrage, where Alberta against Ottawa sounds like an old-school wrestling cage match.
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You know the headline. DANIELLE SMITH SLAMS MARK CARNEY. Alberta premier says Prime Minister Carney is just another Justin Trudeau.
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That IS NOT the headline this day because that is NOT the story.
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Canada’s premiers met with Carney Monday and Smith came out of the gabfest … very encouraged.
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She wasn’t gushing like Ontario Premier Doug Ford who sung Love Is In The Air and compared Carney to Santa Claus.
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Ford, after all, is Carney’s BFF.
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We still have no idea whether or not Smith’s idea of an oil pipeline to the west coast will be fast-tracked as a nation-building project by the Carney government but the Alberta premier is very encouraged.
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We still have no idea whether what Smith calls the Nine Terrible Laws, Liberal anti-oil policies, are going to be killed or rewritten by Carney.
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You know, the cap on oil and gas emissions and the No More Pipelines law and the tanker ban off the B.C. coast and the net-zero electricity regulations and the list goes on.
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Despite what the future may hold, Smith is happy to tell you she feels Carney is way better than former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
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When asked by this scribbler how she rates Monday’s meeting — 10 means bring out the champagne and one is a sit-down with Steven Guilbeault, Trudeau’s green guru — Smith put it as a five.
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The premier says Carney is a “dramatic improvement” over Trudeau since he recognizes the value of Alberta oil and wants to get it to market and get it to Asia.
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Smith still insists Carney must do something about the anti-oil, anti-Alberta Nine Terrible Laws.
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You can’t get investors to pony up big dough for a pipeline with anti-oil laws on the books. Even Liberals should understand that.
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She says success only comes with someone to bankroll the pipeline and we see the shovels in the ground.
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“That’s why there are a lot more steps we need to go through before anyone breaks out the champagne.”