OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she hopes to see a new oil pipeline her government is pitching to British Columbia’s northern coast on the next list of nation-building projects from Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Smith announced on Wednesday that her United Conservative Party government will lead the project through the planning stages as the proponent, with the assistance of a technical working group comprised of industry representatives, including three major energy companies: South Bow, Enbridge, and Trans Mountain.

Her move inches Carney’s government one step closer to having to decide whether to greenlight the construction of a new oil pipeline under the process his government ushered in to fast-track the approval of major energy and infrastructure projects.

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