Taxpayers to buy Alberta another pipeline in far-reaching shakeup of Canada’s energy picture

It’s the socialists from Ottawa coming to the rescue in the bastion of drill-baby-drill petro-capitalism yet again.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s, left, preliminary commitment to get Premier Danielle Smith’s pipeline built should at least help dampen Alberta separatism, writes Les Whittington. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

July 8, 2026

OTTAWA—When it comes to theatre of the absurd in public life, nothing tops pipeline politics.

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