Carney’s Alberta pipeline deal might be dead in the water

Iam starting to wonder if Mark Carney knows what he is doing.

On Thursday, he met with Premier Danielle Smith in Calgary to sign a new agreement with Alberta, which includes federal support for a bitumen pipeline to northern British Columbia.

On the surface, this is splendid news. It was good to see Smith and Carney working together on a project that will reduce Western alienation, bring in some petro bucks and reduce Canada’s dependence on U.S. markets — if it works — which it won’t.

The problem is not in Ottawa or Calgary but on the stunningly beautiful and ecologically important northern coast of British Columbia, where an alliance of First Nations say they will never accept a bitumen port. The people of the Pacific coast — where they have been making their livings fishing salm