Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and former environment minister Steven Guilbeault will not resign from Mark Carney’s cabinet over the upcoming pipeline agreement between Ottawa and Alberta, according to a senior government source.

Guilbeault had been rumoured to be unhappy with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to agree to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that would outline conditions under which a potential new oil pipeline could be built to the northwest coast of British Columbia.

The senior government source told Global News that Guilbeault and Carney spoke about the pipeline MoU in what was described as an “honest and candid” conversation.

One of the leading environmentalists in the Liberal caucus, Guilbeault is a major political figure for the Liberals in his

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