Minutes before Finance Minister Travis Toews stood up to speak to a Calgary business audience about the stressed state of Alberta’s finances, another court ruling about an oil pipeline came barrelling down the track.“As other Albertans have been frustrated, we have been very frustrated with that process,” Toews told reporters Wednesday after addressing a Calgary Chamber of Commerce luncheon about the MacKinnon panel financial report.
But the ruling did give permission for six of 12 legal challenges to be heard against the federal government’s re-approval in June of the project.Unlike the seismic August 2018 court decision that placed the federally owned project in legal limbo for months because of inadequate consultation with First Nations during the first approval process, the pipeline’s expansion work can continue.
The MacKinnon report, which called for the province to make at least $600 million in spending cuts to balance the budget within four years, also laid out in black and white what’s at stake financially in the pipeline fight. “Canadian businesses are continually frustrated at what is good enough and will we ever get anything done in the country,” said Adam Legge, president of the Business Council of Alberta.
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