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Prime Minister Mark Carney attends the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Saturday, July 11, 2026.THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jeff McIntosh<\/p>\nPrime Minister Mark Carney, on the heels of a trip to the Middle East, landed Saturday night at the Calgary Stampede where he ate mini doughnuts, watched chuckwagon races \u2014 and talked pipelines.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s good to be back,\u201d said Carney, wearing a white hat and a belt buckle, as he walked the Stampede grounds and was welcomed by some in the crowd.<\/p>\n
Carney was in Calgary just last week to announce, with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, a plan for a new oil pipeline to the West Coast.<\/p>\n
Alberta submitted its plan to the federal government\u2019s major projects office for the pipeline to follow the path of the current Trans Mountain pipeline, from Bruderheim, Alta., northeast of\u00a0Edmonton, to a terminal in Delta, B.C., south of Vancouver. Alberta and Trans Mountain Corp., a federal Crown corporation, would hold majority interest.<\/p>\n
The same day, Carney announced with B.C. Premier David Eby a deal to make the pipeline happen.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Mark Carney attends the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Saturday, July 11, 2026.THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jeff McIntosh<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s get that pipeline through eh?\u201d one Stampede-goer said to Carney. \u201cThank you for doing this. We need someone like you to push this through.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know where we stand out here right? We\u2019ve got to have that pipeline. It\u2019s good for the country,\u201d said another man.<\/p>\n
Carney said he\u2019s optimistic the pipeline will get done and that polling across the country shows it has majority support.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m feeling pretty good about it now,\u201d Carney said.<\/p>\n
He was scheduled to return to the Stampede on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
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Prime Minister Mark Carney, second right, takes a photo as he attends the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Saturday, July 11, 2026.THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jeff McIntosh<\/p>\n
Earlier Saturday, Carney reposted his sweeping 17-minute video argument for working across provincial boundaries and ditching his predecessor\u2019s climate plan. He unveiled the video on social media June 30.<\/p>\n
The video opens with Carney saying Canada is facing a threefold energy crisis with high prices, global instability and a rapidly changing climate.<\/p>\n
The solution, he says, demands collaboration across the country and reducing barriers for development, including oil and gas.<\/p>\n
\u201cAddressing energy security means we\u2019re going to produce our conventional oil and gas in the most environmentally sustainable ways and export them to where they will make the biggest difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
His address also seems to make a special effort to speak to Albertans\u2019 frustrations with the rest of the county, as the province heads toward an Oct. 19 referendum on separation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was a teenager in\u00a0Edmonton\u00a0when the national energy program was introduced, and I remember how Ottawa made Albertans feel like our resources weren\u2019t our own,\u201d \u00a0Carney says in the video, referring to former prime minister Pierre Trudeau\u2019s policy from the 1980s.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore recently, we were made to feel like our energy contributions were running against the tides of history,\u201d he adds. \u201cWhat should have brought us together began to divide us, contributing to a half-century of politics that have too often pulled us apart.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Prime Minister Mark Carney, centre, and Diana Fox Carney, left, sign the national anthem as they attend the chuckwagon races at the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Saturday, July 11, 2026.THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jeff McIntosh<\/p>\n
Carney appeared at the Stampede with his Alberta Liberal members of parliament Matt Jeneroux and Corey Hogan as well as Terry Duguid of Winnipeg.<\/p>\n
The prime minister wasn\u2019t introduced as he later sat in the stands at GMC Stadium, with his wife, Diana Fox Carney, to watch chuckwagon races. Carney didn\u2019t make a public address and blended in with others wearing cowboy hats.<\/p>\n
Carney took off his hat and put it to his chest as he sang the national anthem and looked to the centre of the arena, where a rider stood on the back of a galloping horse while holding a Canadian flag.<\/p>\n
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