Bell: Smith on a pipeline — Alberta will see if Team Canada is real

'The ball is in Prime Minister Carney's court,' says Premier Danielle Smith

Let’s throw out a tidbit, a little appetizer to start things off.

There is a very strong and a very persistent rumour Prime Minister Mark Carney will be in Calgary next week.

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When you hear such scuttlebutt again and again and nobody laughs you out of the room and you know Carney and Premier Danielle Smith are said to be close, close, close to a deal, a so-called memorandum of understanding outlining a way forward for a bitumen pipeline to the west coast, it is hard not to give into the temptation to connect those dots.

On Friday, Smith is in Calgary talking about tackling classroom complexity, a real challenge for teachers.

But the premier also fields questions about pipeline complexity, a