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Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith met in Calgary on Thursday to sign an energy agreement that includes a pledge for a new pipeline to the West Coast.

Prime Minister Mark Carney likes to talk about how we are living through a hinge moment, an inflection point in the arc of global history. The sweeping entente between Ottawa and Alberta unveiled on Thursday represents just such a hinge moment on a domestic scale: a welcome, wise and overdue rethinking of pipeline, energy and climate policy by the federal Liberals and, to a lesser extent, the United Conservative provincial government.

The most obvious example of the policy pivot by the Carney Liberals in the memorandum of understanding published on Thursday is the stated commitment to a new oil pipel

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