OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday his government’s forthcoming energy deal with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith will create “necessary conditions” for a potential pipeline to British Columbia, but not provide an outright guarantee.

Carney, fresh off his trip to the United Arab Emirates and the G20 Leaders’ Summit in South Africa, is set to depart for Alberta to ink a new memorandum of understanding with Smith, defining the conditions of the two governments’ dealings on energy, expected to be formalized on Thursday.

Topping Smith’s list of demands from Carney is for his Liberal government to offer some kind of pathway to see a new bitumen pipeline built from Alberta to B.C.’s coast, a proposal that has been rejected by coastal First Nations as well as B.C. Premier David

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