Prime Minister Mark Carney met with B.C. Premier David Eby on Wednesday morning and pipeline politics were high on the agenda.
On Friday, Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced they had entered into an implementation agreement for a proposed pipeline to B.C.’s coast.
It outlines a timeline for the project, with Alberta submitting a proposal to the major projects office by July 1 and construction expected to begin as early as September 2027.
The two sides also agreed to a deal on industrial carbon pricing.
Carney gave a speech to the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade on Wednesday morning, laying out his plans for the Canadian economy.
“We need to move, we need to move together, we need to move in a coordinated fashion,” Carney said.
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Eby previously expressed strong opposition to a pipeline to the north coast.
He argued Alberta is getting preferential treatment from Ottawa, partly due to the threat of separatism.
“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.”
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However, he sounded a different tone on Wednesday.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that the prime minister is a friend to British Columbia and an important part of friendship is telling each other the truth,” Eby said.
He wants Ottawa to uphold an existing north coast tanker ban that could impact the viability of a pipeline project while looking for federal backing for major B.C.-led initiatives such as phase 2 of LNG Canada.
“The provincial government is trying to narrow the tightrope here,” Stewart Prest, a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, said.
“They are desperate to look like a party that’s capable of advancing business; they really want to show that they are a party that can get shovels in the ground.”
Carney was also clear about what the federal government is trying to accomplish.
“I feel like we’re really getting momentum now across the country; we don’t want to hear what people are against; we want to hear what they’re for, and if you’re for something, we will get behind you,” he said.
How many of you idiots on the comment typers know the National ANTHEM ?
” We don’t want to hear what people are against ”
Of course not. Accountability is not a Liberal trait, neither is accomplishing anything of substance.
Talk Carney is simply putting on a show.This pipeline will never be built.Its all smoke and mirrors, a continuation of the Trudeau circus sideshow but with a new clown as ring leader.
BCs priorities under Eby ? More land give aways, more unsafe supply and junkies, more homeless and welfare skids. More terrorists in Surrey and definitely less infrastructure and energy projects . Go home Carney you clown & pander to Quebec & ontarerrible .
Eby whining about Pipes when FN trying to steal land from private land owners and usurping democratic processes is a joke.
Poor JV.
The Red Liberal Kool Aid has fully saturated ever fiber of JV’s being.Sad to see another one taken by the Great Liberal Lie.
There is still time and hope J.V. You can do it, break free from the Chains of Liberalism and Embrace the Freedom of Conservative Life.You will thank yourself before you know it !!!
There isn’t going to be a pipeline and Carney knows it.This is all Liberal showboating. They are planning a construction start in September 27 ? Ya,right.The environmentalists and first nations will wreck havoc,the government red tape and bureaucracy will stall and inflate the cost,and the project will be delayed for years.
Eby will bow to whatever the FN wants and Carney, who is already beginning to decline in approval will be to busy trying to pull the Liberals out of the dumpster fires they always manage to start on themselves mid term.
Pipe it through the States ,don’t waste time with Eby ,the guy looks like a melting ice cream bar and is equally as sharp.
Hey JV, look at you two comments, and you up here crying again everyday, ranting and screaming insults about the change in tide?
This swing in sentiment and then the vast majority of people like us must be getting into your head. Hoho!
Did you read the other day how 2 FN tribes want to put a pause on the three way FN contested treaty agreement because public opinion is screaming angry at them!
Bahahaha!
What’s is voted in can be voted out!
Look it up everyone. You got a vote use it!
The only priority for Eby is DRIPA and Carney will be only to happy to support this kind of nonsense.
I get a kick out of Albertans…move here ….and think they own the joint. Dillusional.
35 yrs ago? Ish…the east wanted to fish everything. Sounds just like all these comments. All the ” rage ” and tough guy rhetoric…they fist fought and stormed city hall because the ” people ” knew everything ” and we need to ” boost the economy ” etc. ( those slogans make people feel important) Until ONE GUY went against all these ” visionaries ” and stopped them in their tracks by shutting down the entire industry. 35/40 Years later they thanked him for for doing so, so they could have an industry today.
Bob B – We can always count on Conservative goofs like you to spread your hate for First Nations and spread disinformation regarding the “vast majority” of British Columbians. It’s what you do
Look at Bob B begging Eby like a little b1tch 🤣🤣
Eby, Canada needs these things now, the US of Anarchy is not co operating with us as was in the past. So quit giving our land away, (I’ll never stop being angry with you over that alone) quit trying to stop forward moving progress and getting our people working and being able to afford to live in this province. In other words, sit down and be quiet.
Eby the aloof environmental activist thinks he knows best, and yet he has done nothing to improve the province but willing to spend tax dollars attempting to make a deal with china who wonder who this low politician thinks he is he will keep relying on taxation and wealthy running up a massive deficit screw him just build the pipeline
Eby looking for a federal
Real estate agent to see off bc
Has Eby never heard of Quebec? Their threat of separation helped extract all sorts of advantages from Ottawa.
Come Eby, get er done! Screw the FN.
Other than a handful of environmentalists the vast majority of us want this.
The height difference lol