Alberta’s pipeline gambit puts Confederation’s capacity to build to the test

Alberta’s pipeline gambit puts Confederation’s capacity to build to the test EDITORIAL 30 JUNE 2026 i A revived bitumen line to the West Coast has become a referendum on whether Canada can still permit large infrastructure at all EDITORIAL BOARD ARTICLE SUMMARY QUOTES Three in 10 Albertans now say they want out of Canada, and on this Canada Day, they are watching to see whether Ottawa’s promises mean anything. Falice Chin wrote that Alberta’s proposed bitumen pipeline to the West Coast—once dismissed by B.C. Premier David Eby as a “fictional” project with no route and no proponent—has become …