At a lunch-time speech in Ottawa, the normally affable Alberta premier said the Canadian government is “wilfully” holding Alberta’s economy hostage because of its inability to follow through on its constitutional responsibility to transport resources across provincial boundaries. Notley said she had asked Trudeau to join her government in buying rail cars to ship an additional 120,000 barrels a day. In a letter of reply, the prime minister indicated the new legislation would only regulate projects in areas of federal jurisdiction. In her letter, the premier asked Trudeau to “postpone” passage of C-69 until the uncertainty in the legislation is resolved. “This whole ‘trust us, trust us, trust us’ thing is not a thing.

Source: National Post November 29, 2018 00:22 UTC