1 MIN AGO! Mark Carney PISSED OFF As Smith blames him for embezzling money meant to build pipelines

Описание: Danielle Smith’s pipeline ransom note to Mark Carney is using Canada as her hostage
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to clear away any federal regulatory obstacles to the proposed pipeline and then back it in the face of determined B.C and Indigenous opposition.
Here’s the to-do list Danielle Smith has set for Mark Carney. He has to:

approve her proposal to build a pipeline from Alberta to the northern coast of British Columbia that has no private sector sponsor and no declared route;
push it through over the strenuous objections of the government of B.C., environmental organizations, and the affected Indigenous groups, all of whom are sure to do everything they can to stop the project: legally, politically, and physically; and
sweep away a raft of federal laws and regulations said to be responsible for the lack of private sector interest, including the cap on oil-sands emissions, the Impact Assessment Act and the ban on large oil tankers off the B.C. coast.
And he has to commit to doing all this inside of five weeks – in time to include the pipeline on a list of “major projects” receiving federal backing, to be released mid-November. The proposal will not be submitted to the federal Major Projects Office until May. Still, the Alberta Premier says she needs “a signal” of federal intentions before then.

Oh, one more thing: If he does not agree to every line of this ultimatum, it will not only be the Prime Minister’s credibility that is in question, according to Ms. Smith, but Canada itself. “This is a test,” she declared, “of whether Canada works as a country
As blackmail notes go, this is right up there. Do as I say – risk your government, Canada’s international climate commitments, relations with Indigenous groups, and God knows what else – or we blow up the country. Well, not “we,” exactly, but you know, those other groups I’ve been furiously winking at the past six months.

Were it not for the implied threat to the country, one might say: fair enough. Since entering politics, Mr. Carney has been playing a double game, suggesting he was open to building pipelines even as he promised no pipeline would be “imposed” on anyone. Ms. Smith wants to flush him out, and pin him down — to force him to choose.

To now, Mr. Carney and his ministers have been able to fend off any questions about their ultimate commitment by insisting “there’s no proposal” in front of them. Ms. Smith has sought to close off that escape route by presenting her own proposal. That’s a gamble on her part: were Mr. Carney to do as she asks, and still no private sponsor emerged, she would be left looking foolish. But to get to that point he’d have to spend large amounts of political capital – existential amounts, possibly.
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