Before the 112th Grey Cup gets underway at Princess Auto Stadium in Winnipeg, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is expecting a major chapter to unfold in the long-running federal-provincial battle over energy policy.

Those policies have been evolving in Alberta over the past number of months. Smith has spoken of a “grand bargain” and has said she expects an agreement by the CFL’s championship game on Nov. 16.

“I expect the federal government to reach an agreement on this [memorandum of understanding] by Grey Cup so we can move on to the next step and begin attracting private capital back to Canada’s natural resource sector,” Smith wrote in a statement in October.

According to the premier, this would include the federal government removing or rewriting what Alberta calls “bad l

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