VICTORIA — Premier David Eby responded with a sneer to the news this week that Ottawa was in discussions with Alberta and Saskatchewan about an oil pipeline to the northwest coast of B.C. Article content

“I almost fell out of my seat,” Eby told the CBC’s David Cochrane Thursday. “I feel like I’m watching a couple of tourists wearing sandals wander into the woods on the North Shore of Vancouver saying, ‘don’t worry about us, we know where we’re going.’ Article content

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“They’re going to have to be rescued by a helicopter, and guess who has to send the helicopter?”

B.C. should obviously have been included in the pipeline conversation, Eby argued.

“I think we can bring some information to the table.”

Time was when B.C. might have made a constructive

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