There is a theory that the recent pipeline MOU , given all the caveats and requirements on the part of Alberta (including finding private funding and first Nations consultations) is a strategic play to shut Danielle Smith up for a while. I think Carney would actually support the pipeline under the terms laid out in the MOU, but it’s just a long shot that Alberta can get their end of it done that it seems likely that neutralizing her and the pissy Alberta separatist movement might have been the primary goal .

Pipeline politics