Canada

And next week's announcement: "BC premier signs MOU with feds for pipeline to West Coast"

That it apparently all lies on indigenous groups to resist tells us exactly where this is going.

If the pipeline proposal proceeds on the schedule we are given it will begin right around the time of the next Alberta provincial election and have been in process for a year for the next BC provincial election. Making Smith look strong for hers and Eby look weak for his.

Carney is more ideologically copacetic with Danielle Smith than he is with David Eby and seems like he is both fine with a UCP governed Alberta and would prefer a CPBC governed British Columbia.

I don't like Eby's argument, because I'd rather it be denied for reasons based upon environmental and BC people's rights, but the argument itself is entirely reasonable.

If Smith is trying to get the feds to force a pipeline into B.C., and then B.C.'s energy is forced to compete on less favourable terms than Alberta's, that is fundamentally unfair.