Alberta premier outlines list of demands in first meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 20, 2025 3:45 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says that successful her archetypal gathering with the caller premier curate she gave him an earful connected everything from wildfires to lipid sales.

And she says she warned Mark Carney that if Ottawa doesn't measurement up soon, nationalist unity hangs successful the balance.

She says she met with Carney successful Edmonton astatine his request.

Smith has been a longtime professional of national Liberal authorities policies, saying they person illegally encroached connected Alberta's assets rights and strangled its wellspring lipid and state industry.

She says she told Carney whoever wins the upcoming national predetermination needs to alteration oregon termination a scope of policies that are illegally undermining the operator of Alberta's economy.

"We had a precise frank treatment successful which I made it wide that Albertans volition nary longer tolerate the mode we've been treated by the national Liberals implicit the past 10 years," Smith said successful a quality release.

She said if these problems aren't fixed successful six months, they volition pb to what she calls "an unprecedented nationalist unity crisis."

The premier besides accused Ottawa of mismanaging Jasper and Banff nationalist parks — and she believes that led to the devastating wildfire successful Jasper successful July.

"With the national predetermination astir to beryllium called, I promote each Albertans to get progressive successful what is apt 1 of the astir pivotal and important elections successful our nation's history," Smith said.