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Premier Rachel Notley’s crew won’t say it outright, but they’re worried that Ottawa could slide away from full support for the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion.

This doesn’t have to be outright abandonment of federal power over interprovincial trade. It could simply mean the feds fail to push the B.C. government hard, or at all, and leave the fight entirely to Alberta until Kinder Morgan quietly folds up its tent.

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And before you know it, there’s a friendly environment for the Liberals on B.C.’s Lower Mainland during next year’s federal election.

Notley says one key reason for her boycott legislation is to “make sure that everyone keeps the priority for that project as No. 1 on the front burner.”

She has to stir up a regional crisis to hold Ottawa’s attention. A premier certain of her federal ally wouldn’t feel the need to do that.

What Alberta gets for this cockeyed necessity is deteriorating relations with the people of a province most of us deeply admire.