Bell: Smith gets pipeline pact with Carney, now she must sell it to Albertans

Danielle Smith is one happy camper this day.

The Alberta premier has scored an agreement, a deal, a memorandum of understanding with Prime Minister Mark Carney .

Smith is more than happy to talk about it.

A clear path to the construction of an Alberta bitumen pipeline to the northwest B.C. coast. Smith calls it “a major milestone.”

Ottawa suspending its clean electricity regulations in Alberta.

Ottawa scrapping its planned cap on oil and gas emissions.

Ottawa giving a workaround on their tanker ban so bitumen from Alberta’s pipeline, if it ever gets built, can be shipped across the ocean to Asia.

“This is Alberta’s moment of opportunity,” says Smith.

She knows some Indigenous groups oppose the pipeline and some in B.C. sound ready to fight . She knows B.C.’s NDP Premier David E