OTTAWA — A potential pipeline to the West Coast has created strange political bedfellows.

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet held a meeting with British Columbia Premier David Eby on Dec. 2, only days after the federal government signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Alberta paving the way for a new bitumen pipeline.

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Blanchet offered his help to B.C. last week — seeing that the MOU was negotiated without the province’s input and offers to relax key climate policies such as the tanker ban — and Eby’s team and his quickly came into contact to coordinate a virtual meeting.

Blanchet said they quickly agreed that, on certain subjects, they were on the same page.

He said the MOU sets a “precedent” that he does not want to see repeated in Quebec.

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