Alberta oil exports

Toronto (Rajeev Sharma)— A major energy agreement between Ottawa and Alberta has shaken Canada’s political landscape, after Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta’s premier reached an understanding to work toward a new oil pipeline to the Pacific Coast.The memorandum of understanding outlines plans to diversify Canada’s oil exports beyond the United States and proposes easing an existing oil tanker ban along sections of British Columbia’s coastline if the project advances. The development immediately stirred internal turmoil in Carney’s cabinet.One of the strongest reactions came from inside the government itself. A senior cabinet minister resigned from his post in protest, warning…