Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks about new measures to protect Canadian strategic industries on Parliament Hill on Wednesday.

Members of the Liberal caucus are concerned about the specifics of the energy deal Mark Carney will sign with Alberta on Thursday, sources say, even as the Prime Minister says it will have broad benefits for the country.

The memorandum of understanding is the culmination of weeks of negotiation between the two sides to achieve what Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has taken to calling the “grand bargain”: finding a way to ramp up natural resource development while supporting climate change goals.

For Mr. Carney and Ms. Smith, the MOU also formalizes a new relationship between the two levels of government, after the old one had cratered under the previous

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