All hat, no oil: who pays for a new Alberta-to-B.C. pipeline?

The federal Liberals have taken the position that an Alberta-to-B.C.-coast oil line has to have a private sector proponent. So far, none has stepped up.

From Prime Minister Mark Carney’s perspective, opening the way for an oil conduit to increase Alberta’s petroleum exports by an impressive one-third of current capacity makes a fair bit of sense economically, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

May 20, 2026

OTTAWA—On the day in 2014 when then-prime minister Stephen Harper’s government announced approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline project—without so much as a press conference—more than two dozen First Nations groups in British Columbia came out strongly against it....

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