https://twitter.com/dkennedyglans/status/1075883795876765696 Ms. Kennedy-Glans was decidedly among the adults in the room among MLAs when I covered Alberta politics years ago. That she's now sharing this suggests either a shift in her thinking, or is a sign that mainstream Calgary believes this to be true. I assume the latter.

A couple thoughts. One is that most constitutional lawyers I interview are perfectly happy to be quoted on the record; who is this one? Second, they tend to say that the power being suggested here is irrelevant -- courts aren't questioning federal authority over Trans Mountain.

Declaring you have the power to build something is in some ways an admission that you might otherwise not.



Thatcher jumps to mind for me when it comes to pipelines: “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”