British Columbia Premier David Eby, had, in U.S. President Donald Trump’s words, “no cards” to play during contentious pipeline talks, but he walked away this week with a winning hand, leaving Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith with successes to boast of, but with major political wounds, too.
When Carney and Smith signed a memorandum of understanding in November, much was made about which leader had come out ahead. Smith had chosen not push forward other nation-building projects, putting all her eggs in a B.C.-bound pipeline proposal, and declaring its approval was a “test of whether Canada works as a country.”
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