OTTAWA — Steven Guilbeault may no longer be federal environment minister , but Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she still sees him as a threat to the province’s oil and gas industry.

Smith said on her weekly radio show this weekend that Guilbeault, now heritage minister, has an “overt motive” to establish new federally protected parks in the path of pipelines and other energy infrastructure.

She added that she wouldn’t consent to the creation of any new federal parks in Alberta.

“I do not want to see one additional acre of territory that’s within Alberta turned into a federal park … we certainly don’t need Steven Guilbeault telling us what is important to protect in Alberta,” said Smith.

“If there is critical habitat that Albertans want to protect … we’ll put in provincial parks

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