OTTAWA — As Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith inked a new energy and pipeline pact on Thursday, a government source close to Liberal cabinet minister Steven Guilbeault, a former environment minister, says he is reflecting on his future.

Guilbeault, who currently holds the portfolio of Canadian Identity and Culture, is a long-time climate activist, and the source said he will be taking the time to read his government’s new pact with Alberta in detail before making a decision.

The deal Carney inked with Smith on Thursday in Alberta sees his government agree to suspend clean electricity regulations in the province and commit to consider making an “adjustment” to the federal oil tanker ban off British Columbia’s coast to pave the way for construction of a new oil

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