After Liberal win, can Carney bridge longstanding divides with the West?
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In the wake of Mark Carney's election win, several provincial leaders are calling for a political "reset" in how Ottawa engages with the West — particularly in Alberta and Saskatchewan, where grievances over federal decision-making run deep.
The federal government should "engage and consult" Saskatchewan, Premier Scott Moe said Tuesday.
Carney should "reach out to our friends out West, and tell them how he's going to build that pipeline," Ontario Premier Doug Ford added.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith congratulated Carney but said in a statement she would not "permit the status quo to continue."
She later told CBC's Power & Politics host David Cochrane that she believed there was a cross-partisan, national consensus emerging on energy corridors and market access.
"I hope he captures that and is able to move forward with some of the changes he needs to make in order to turn that into a reality," she said.
Carney has spoken of positioning Alberta as the heart of a new superpower in both clean and conventional energy.
"My government will work with Indigenous peoples, with the provinces, and with the private sector to fast-track projects that build our energy security by displacing foreign suppliers such as the United States," Carney said at an election rally in Calgary last month.
"Projects that diversify our export markets, so we rely less on the United States, and projects that enhance our long-term competitiveness, including with low-carbon oil and gas. I know that Alberta will be at the heart of all of these solutions."
Smith held a meeting with Carney before the campaign began and made a list of public demands, including ending Ottawa's proposed emissions cap, and warned that a national unity crisis could unfold should they not be met. On Thursday, she announced Alberta would seek a court ruling on the constitutionality of Ottawa's clean electricity regulations.
Pollster and political analyst Janet Brown said on CBC Radio's Alberta at Noon that Smith's immediate reiteration of her pre-election demands signalled her strategy.
"Danielle Smith is losing no time at all. And she's decided she's going to be on offence … she's going to go up to bat first," Brown said. "She didn't give [Carney] a couple days to settle in."
The onus moving forward is on both politicians, Brown added. For Carney, it will be important to extend an olive branch to Alberta, she said.
"[He'll need] to acknowledge that very few Albertans voted for him, but that he's working to acknowledge what Albertans value about their economy, and what needs to happen to have better relations," she said.
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