Pipeline deal with Ottawa met with boos at Alberta UCP convention
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Delegates at the UCP AGM reacted with boos when Alberta Premier Danielle Smith asked if they were more confident in Canada following this week's pipeline MOU signing with Ottawa.
Alberta’s watershed pipeline deal with Ottawa wasn’t front and centre Friday when Premier Danielle Smith spoke with United Conservative Party faithful at their annual convention.
Smith took the stage in Edmonton for the first of many addresses planned for the weekend.
It wasn’t until after she spoke on issues including rural policing, new federal legislation and even separatism that someone in the crowd asked for clarification on Alberta’s commitments in the deal, prompting her to address it.
“I think it’s a clear win,” Smith said of the accord.
There was some applause, but the premier was later met with a chorus of boos when she asked party supporters if they feel more confident in Canada than they did a few days ago.
The deal, signed by Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday, commits Alberta and Ottawa to working together toward a new bitumen pipeline to the West Coast.
Carney also walked back many of the nine federal laws Smith has long blamed for stalling energy investments in the province.
“I would say seven out of nine isn’t bad,” Smith told the UCP crowd, listing off the looming oil and gas emissions cap and clean electricity regulations that Carney agreed to back off of, at least for Alberta.
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