VICTORIA — Rifts in “Team Canada” appear to be widening on the brink of a federal announcement on a potential pipeline from Alberta to the West coast, with B.C.’s deputy premier even raising the prospect of legal action against the project.

Asked if she expects B.C. to file a court challenge against the pipeline that Premier David Eby has derided as a “fictional” project, Attorney General Niki Sharma said Tuesday she was “staying tuned to see.”

It’s the latest example of interprovincial sniping over the pipeline, with Eby dismissing it as a “communications exercise” from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

Smith, meanwhile has suggested that B.C. should get little say in the matter. She said Friday of B.C.’s opposition that “there was also a lot of sabre rattling in previous iterations of t

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