Does this sound familiar — a premier from British Columbia opposes a pipeline from Alberta that would move oil to the West Coast, and seeks to block it?

In turn, an Alberta premier fires back.

“Enough is enough . . . We need to get these things built.”

The year was 2017. The Alberta premier was Rachel Notley.

The issue was the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Today, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is expressing a similar view — that Canada needs to get major projects built, including a greenfield oil pipeline to the Pacific Coast, rather than trying to find novel ways to obstruct them.

And a budding feud between the B.C. and Alberta governments in 2025 has echoes to the past, when then-B.C. premier John Horgan said he was prepared to use every tool in the toolbox to stop the Trans M

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