B.C. Premier David Eby is expected to meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday and a possible Pacific pipeline is sure to be on the agenda.
On Friday, Eby said that the federal government is rewarding Alberta for “bad behaviour” by agreeing to push for a new bitumen pipeline to the West Coast.
On Tuesday, Eby said that his message is straightforward, saying British Columbia backs Canada and Ottawa needs to back British Columbia.
“The message to the prime minister is simple,” Eby said.
“This country cannot work if separatists, separatist premiers, others get all of the attention of the federal government and those provinces where we’re standing squarely behind Canada, where we are fighting for Canada, where we couldn’t be more pro-Canadian in the projects we’re advancing.”
Eby said B.C. was left out of the discussion when Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed an “implementation agreement” to advance a West Coast pipeline to Ottawa’s major projects office by July 1.
The new agreement commits both the federal government and Alberta to consult B.C. on the proposed pipeline, and it could be declared in the national interest by the federal government by October, which would expedite the project.
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“We have huge projects here in the province that are going to employ thousands and thousands of British Columbians and Canadians from across the country,” Eby said on Tuesday.
“It’s going to raise the national GDP. It’s going to raise the value of the Canadian dollar. Some of these projects are that big. And we’re training up British Columbians to be able to take the jobs these projects create. So they have more money to cope with rising expenses as a result of global inflation.
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“We are doing this work. We need to do it together and we need to have at least as much enthusiasm from the federal government for B.C. projects as they’ve shown for Alberta projects.”
A statement from the Coastal First Nations advocacy group says its members will never allow a pipeline or oil tankers to the North Coast of B.C., and notes that Friday’s announcement doesn’t increase the chances of that.
Eby said that B.C. currently has $88 billion in projects on the go, with 34 different major projects and 40 per cent of the projects with proponents and roots ready to begin.
“We have the British Columbians who are getting trained to be able to take the jobs these projects create through a quarter billion dollars in new funding for training, so that this puts more money in British Columbians’ pockets by creating jobs and opportunity,” he said.
“It puts more in Canadians’ pockets across the country by lifting the national GDP. We just need to see that same level of support that Alberta has seen from the prime minister right here in British Columbia.”
–with files from The Canadian Press
This guy makes Trump look good.
All those jobs in B.C. Eby talks about will probably go to temporary foreign workers!
Sorry…I meant @ eby swallows…
Alberta swallows…no self-respecting true BC resident is moving to Alberta! Good god. And if they do they’ll realize how stupid it is and return instantly. Anyone who’s ” moving” to Alberta is just an Albertan moving back.
Alberta can’t work with a far left authoritarian socialist government in British Columbia.
Smith should sue him for slander
B.C has not had a solid economy since Bill Bennett implemented significant cuts to social services and education and repealed labour laws, resulting in a general strike. Spent hundreds of millions of dollars on Expo 86, vander zalm, Fantasy Gardens conflict of interest controversy.,harcourt bingogate, clark fast ferry, g campbell hst controversy, Eby tries to make a deal with china and he’s an aloof environmental activist
Eby is a total far left cry baby. He certainly isn’t on Team Canada and only cares about BC natural resources getting to markets
It is Eby’s job to ensure BC is included and if he can’t do that then it may be time for him to step aside and make way for someone who can ensure the concerns of BC, beside free drugs and diversity, are heard loud and clear by Carney.
Alberta gets one major project in a decade and Canada is in an uproar that Alberta is getting special treatment. And people wonder why Albertans wants to be independent.
A- holes from bc are all moving to Alberta now that they destroyed bc , Bc full of bums and snotty boomers
@ jason…can anybody ever tell the truth…it’s like talking to my mom. 98 percent of the people that moved here are ALBERTANS…look around.Its not a secret.
@BC resident
Sure 98% of our population moved here from other parts of Canada, but at least we are not Shanghai light.
Did he finally realize BC brings nothing but weed, trees, and scenes to Canada?
Quebec is what he really means, I hope.
It’s about time the Feds paid attention to the west.
Another attempt by Eby to deflect the real problems he is facing in his own province. Won’t work for those paying attention. Fix your own backyard first!
Eby and his far left authoritarian socialist government is a disgrace and totally running BC into a ditch. Similar to the Trudeau regime with Canada.
@ STAY IN YOUR LANE? 98 percent of Alberta moved here! Get back in your own lane…in your own province!!!
Canada needs Alberta’s Oil regardless. Sorry Eny but I see lots of ICE vehicles driving around in BC. Eby is a self serving hippocrite, hopefully to be shown the door in the next election.
Smith and the Parti Quebecois are interchangeable.
Imagine if Smith was born in Quebec!
Whiner has never said anything good about anybody.
Totally correct. Smith is out for herself and cares for no one. She was called “two-faced” way back in her high school days. Totally a knife in back type.
@ Pidherney: sure jerk.
Canadians who hate separatist jerks are just hiding our Canadian failures you say.
Phuck off goof.
At least Eby has the guts to say it. Alberta is taking a page from Quebec’s playbook. Ridiculous.
Eby trying to deflect his own failures and smearing DS. She is not a “Separatist” Premier however is allowing Albertans to vote on it in October in a referendum. Seems Democracy scares Eny.
Why is Eby blocking natural resources projects for other provinces while promoting in his own province? His comments are self serving and hypocritical but what do you expect from a far left socialist Premier.
Eby stay in your lane, leave Alberta alone and keep wrecking your own province.
Eby is worse than a child so tired of hearing it’s not fair over every issue he deals with a cry baby
Eby and FN get out of the way and stop grinding this province into the dust.
Eby backs “Canada” but won’t allow AB to build a pipeline to Canadian costal waters for export. Eby hypocrisy is full on. Perhaps AB should block rail shipment of goods from Central Canada into BC.
Canada does ‘not work’ if BC’s premiere is anti-prosperity and panders to firnat!
“Listen to me, listen to me, daddy Carney” bleats Eby as he stamps his feet and pouts his excuses.
He is a sad, but entertaining clown. Does anyone really take him seriously?
Eby whines more than most toddlers.
@BC resident. Boy you sound so smart. Why don’t you stop using anything that oil touches. With more and more people coming here REQUIRES more oil. Plain and simple. I’m glad you don’t care about anyone else but yourself. Go put your elbows up.
For someone against pipelines Eby is sure building enough of them in BC. Wasn’t that a 4 billion dollar project that was announced to send more natural gas south to the existing crossing into the old USofA.
It is only good for Canada if it is good for BC whines baby Eby. Getting tired of his obstruction to economic prosperity for other provinces.
To all conservatives/ albertans…what’s it like to be an expert on everything? It’s just yap…I know where Pierre gets it from. NOTHING to back it up with.
@ global reader…keep drinking the purple kool aid ! Man you guys are dillusional.
All the comments are from the mentally challenged who dont have a clue what they are talking about. MR. EBY is right on point….in the REAL world ….not the fantasy pipeline, ” oil is king, ” flat earth world the conservatives/ albertans live in. Do us a favor and feel free to move back to the cult headquarters from which you guys came.
Eby has bigger problems than provinces separating, he slowly giving the province away. He is not the premier of BC he is co-premier of bc.
Eby quit trying to distract. They were talking about this pipeline before all the separatists jibber jabber. You’ve bigger problems to solve is BC starting with why a pipeline isn’t even an option due to a minority of FNs.
communism wont work if separatist premier listen to Albertans
Says the most useless man ever
And British Columbia (and Canada) can’t work if Eby refuses to work with other Premiers which seems to be his MO. So far he has spent the last year saying he is willing to work with everyone but “no pipelines, no development, no resources, no nothing” which means you aren’t willing to work with anyone. Given BC’s economy seems to hinge on selling over-priced houses and land to off-shore billionaires, given that market has dried up, what do we have left?
It goes both ways, the only reason Carney is working around our Provincial Government is because they refuse to compromise reasonably on anything.
He is right. Constant whing from two provinces.
This from Eby who has been against pipelines from the start.
Who cares what the natives think. It is in Canada’s best interest, and a small special interest group should never dictate to a country.
Carney should have consulted (told) Eby what was going to happen, like it or not. And he should have done the same for the Natives.
Every time Eby speaks, he shows everyone he is clueless. Albertans don’t believe any pipeline will be built anytime soon. Only sovereignty will allow us to build in any other direction but south.
This is just straight up false.
Smith has frequently reiterated that she personally opposes Alberta separating from Canada, preferring to use political leverage and sovereignty acts to assert provincial autonomy without leaving the country.
Google Danielle Smith’s stance on Alberta separation or ask your favourite Ai.
Eby said that B.C. currently has $88 billion in projects on the go, what projects is this activist claiming to have, what’s the ignorant premier activist attempting to make in China that they would be interested, lol china is far more advance the B.C
Eby’s a fine one to talk he wants to give the country to natives