Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney meets with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith during a stampede breakfast at the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America in Calgary on Saturday, July 5, 2025. Photo by Darren Makowichuk / Postmedia

B.C.’s governing party and coastal First Nations have come out firing against the new agreement between Ottawa and Alberta that paves the way for one or more bitumen pipelines from the oilsands to B.C.’s north coast.

Premier David Eby has spent the past weeks and months arguing that such a pipeline project is dead in the water since there is no private sector proponent. Eby also noted that the last time Alberta tried to get one built through B.C., the federal government had to buy it and spend billions of taxpayer dollars.

Eby stuck to his g

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