Danielle Smith wants a fight with Canada, not a new pipeline

It’s hard enough to get a pipeline built in Canada, much less one carrying oil to British Columbia’s northern coastline. But Alberta Premier Danielle Smith seems determined to make it nearly impossible. Never mind, for the moment, that her latest proposal is missing both a specific route and a private sector company that would actually put its money where her mouth is. The bigger obstacle right now is the premier proposing it, and her apparent willingness to treat it as a ransom note to the rest of Canada.

That’s because Smith seems determined to keep turning up the political temperature in a debate that demands cooler heads. After BC Premier David Eby pointed out the obvious shortcomings in her proposal, and the negative impact it would have on his province’s growing LNG industry, Smith