On Friday morning in Calgary, Mark Carney and Danielle Smith shook hands, then signed and posed with official copies of an “implementation agreement for the Canada-Alberta memorandum of understanding,” an eight-page document bound up in profound questions of climate change, resource development, economic sovereignty and national unity.
“Today is a good day for Alberta,” the Alberta premier said. “And it’s a good day for Canada.”
“Today,” the prime minister said, was about “building trust in a Canada that works” — a country “rooted in co-operative federalism, where we build together, pragmatically and ambitiously, to achieve our shared ambitions.”
