Prime Minister Mark Carney has laid out prerequisites for a possible new oil pipeline from Alberta to the British Columbia coast after B.C. Premier David Eby warned the project would reward separatist behaviour.
Carney tells the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade that the pipeline project, advanced last week through an implementation agreement between the federal and Alberta governments, will only proceed with the creation of the Pathways carbon capture project.
He says British Columbians should also share substantial economic and financial benefits from the project and that the duty to consult First Nations under section 35 of the Constitution is "non-negotiable."
The proposed project has no agreed route or private proponent.
Eby, who is set to meet Carney today, has said the federal government should not be rewarding Alberta's "bad behaviour" and that the prime minister should focus more on projects being advanced by B.C.
Eby said Tuesday that Canada cannot work if "separatist premiers" get all the attention of the federal government.
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