(Edmonton, AB) November 28, 2025: United Conservatives are celebrating a historic victory for Alberta after signing an agreement with Ottawa that clears the path for a new Indigenous co-owned pipeline to Asian markets, removes the federal oil and gas emissions cap, suspends the Clean Electricity Regulations, and delivers significant changes to federal policies that have held Alberta back for years.
Meanwhile, the NDP is already trying to rewrite history, hastily releasing a statement after the agreement was announced, with their party leader claiming “this MOU is good for Alberta. We need more pipeline capacity.” But he can’t run from his record. The Alberta NDP repeatedly sided with their partisan allies and cheered against the very progress now being delivered.
In an October statement, the NDP leader claimed “there’s no route, there’s no proponent” and “there’s also no commitment from the federal government to repeal the legislation that would make this pipeline possible.” And when asked by CTV about West Coast pipeline negotiations, Naheed Nenshi stated, “what we have from these folks, from the premier in particular, is a pipe dream, not a pipeline.”
“Just two weeks ago, the leader of the NDP claimed our fight for a West Coast pipeline was a ‘pipe dream’,” said Deputy Government Whip Tany Yao. “Now, Premier Danielle Smith has proven him wrong again. Alberta is successfully working with Ottawa to secure the pipeline access our energy workers need. With all this political whiplash, I’m starting to think the leader of the NDP is going to need a neck brace.”
After federal NDP leadership candidate Heather McPherson voted with Justin Trudeau to support a West Coast tanker ban and claimed Alberta is “stuck looking backwards” with plans for a new pipeline, she earned public kudos from the Alberta NDP’s official Instagram account and Calgary-Klein NDP MLA Lizette Tejada. In October, Edmonton-Rutherford NDP MLA Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse even shared B.C. Premier David Eby’s video claiming a West Coast pipeline makes “no financial or economic sense” on her TikTok account.
“The contrast could not be clearer,” added Yao. “United Conservatives delivered a nation-building energy agreement, while the NDP offered no solutions and repeatedly defended the very barriers holding Alberta back.”
United Conservatives remain focused on securing more economic opportunities for workers and families, ensuring Alberta’s energy sector continues to drive prosperity across Canada.
