‘We had a positive conversation. We agreed that we’ll meet in the short term.’
VICTORIA — B.C. Premier John Horgan says he’s confident he can work with Alberta’s new premier-elect Jason Kenney, despite a threat from Kenney that B.C. will face “consequences” for continuing to obstruct oil pipelines.
Kenney too extended an olive branch of negotiations, before repeating Wednesday that he will enact the defeated Alberta NDP government’s so-called turn-off-the-taps legislation and use it as a bargaining chip with Horgan. Cutting off Alberta oil would cause gas prices in B.C. to soar. “We’re going to change that fact by proclaiming into law Bill 12 on the afternoon of April 30. And then I think we sit down with the government of British Columbia with greater strength and clarity about the tools that Alberta can use to defend our vital economic interests. We have a number of other possible consequences for a campaign of obstruction.”
“So while it appears we will have a continuing disagreement with them on Trans Mountain we will try to find areas of common ground, such as on LNG.” B.C. may be vulnerable to a short-term campaign with Alberta on its turn-off-the-taps legislation, but Kenney will soon find himself more focused on fighting Trudeau in this fall’s federal election, said Patrick Smith, a professor of political science at Simon Fraser University and the school’s director of the Institute for Governance Studies.
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