Premier Danielle Smith speaks at a press conference in Calgary, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Premier Danielle Smith meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney
Mar 20, 2025 | 9:54 AM
Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney are meeting today for the first time since he was sworn into office last week.
The visit comes a day after Smith’s United Conservative Party government tabled a bill that seeks to ban federal employees from accessing oil and gas facilities and the emissions data they contain.
Critics and law professors say the province doesn’t have the legal authority to do so, but Smith says she hopes Ottawa co-operates.
Smith says the federal government’s proposed emissions cap is as much of a threat to Alberta’s oil industry as tariffs from the U.S.
