Thoughts on BC Politics and More

For weeks, political watchers have been bracing for the long-rumoured energy accord between Alberta and Ottawa—a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that would align the two levels of government on a conditional pathway for a new oil pipeline to the B.C. coast. The fact that it didn’t come in the budget, during the second tranche of major projects announcement, and blew past Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s half-promised, self-imposed Grey Cup deadline, frustrated a lot of people. But that delay may have been more necessary than meets the eye. It all starts to make sense when folding in a third character in this drama of national importance: David Eby ... CLICK HERE for the full story