Premier Eby tells Carney it’s unacceptable B.C. has been cut out of pipeline talks

By Wolfgang Depner For a project he says “doesn’t actually exist,” there was a lot British Columbia Premier David Eby had to say about a potential pipeline from Alberta to B.C.’s northern coast, in a phone call with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday. There should be a ban on public spending on the project, he said. Or a cap. Or, if it goes ahead with taxpayer money, then B.C. should also get a “$50-billion federally funded project.” Eby also said he told Carney “how unacceptable” it was for Alberta and Saskatchewan to talk with the federal government about the proposal without input from his province. “This is not something that would happen to Quebec,” Eby said Monday at an unrelated news conference in Victoria. “This is not something that…

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