Their government has caused pain to Alberta families,” Alberta Deputy Premier Sarah Hoffman said of B.C. in the legislature on Tuesday. “We can certainly do the same, and we’ve put a bill on the order paper that enables us to do that.”
The prospect of restricting oil flows is causing stress among B.C. businesses, who have begun to call on Victoria to drop its opposition to the pipeline, which caused proponent Kinder Morgan Inc. to announce this week it would pare non-essential spending on the project until the federal government steps in.