🇨🇦 Carney promises Alberta a pipeline by 2027 — in exchange for a $130/tonne carbon tax by 2040

Mark Carney just bought Danielle Smith's silence with a timeline. Alberta gets federal approval for a million-barrel-a-day West Coast pipeline by September 2027, and in return Smith agreed to quintuple Alberta's industrial carbon tax to $130 per tonne over the next 14 years. That's not a deal, that's a hostage negotiation where the kidnapper sets the ransom and the release date.

Carney's Major Projects Office will evaluate Alberta's proposal and grant it national interest status by October 2026 — as if energy sovereignty ever needed Liberal cabinet permission to be in Canada's interest. Smith calls it a good day for Alberta. What she signed is a generational tax hike that makes energy extraction uncompetitive while Beijing builds coal plants weekly. Carney gets his ESG credentials, Alberta gets a maybe-pipeline in 18 months, and the oil sector gets structurally kneecapped by 2040. Nation-building or managed decline.

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