marked by politics<\/a> and pipelines \u2014 both Alberta\u2019s proposed pipeline to the southwest coast of B.C., along with a proposed route for the Northern Shield pipeline project.<\/p>\nPrime Minister Mark Carney, returning to Canada after holding talks in Saudi Arabia last week, met with Treaty 6, Treaty 7 and Treaty 8 First Nation leaders before watching chuckwagon races at the Stampede grounds Saturday, wearing a white cowboy hat, blue western shirt and blue jeans. <\/p>\n
Prior to the show, he arrived outside GMC Stadium, into a beer garden area where many appeared shocked to see him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s an Alberta boy. Nice to see him at the Stampede,\u201d said attendee and Calgary resident Justin Rizzuto.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe things he’s doing, it makes sense for the country,\u201d said Rick Youck, another attendee.<\/p>\n
After being asked about the pipeline by another man, Carney said he was optimistic it would get done.<\/p>\n
“I’m feeling pretty good about it,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, attends the Calgary Stampede in Calgary on July 11. (Jeff McIntosh\/The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n
Not everyone was thrilled to see the prime minister.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe stole all the Conservative ideas,\u201d one man told CBC News, who declined to give his name.<\/p>\n
Others shouted at Carney from the crowd.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t like Liberals here,\u201d shouted one man.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t wait to vote for Alberta independence!\u201d yelled another.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Carney attended a Stampede breakfast at the Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Association.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Prime Minister Mark Carney, Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas and Calgary Liberal MP Corey Hogan attend a Stampede breakfast in Sunnyside on Sunday. (Jennifer Keiller\/CBC)<\/p>\n
At the event, Calgary Liberal MP Corey Hogan told CBC News that it was important for Carney to attend, given the looming referendum on Oct. 19.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can’t deny that separation is a cloud over all of the conversations, right? People are talking about, \u2018What does it mean in the context of,\u2019 and that’s really unfortunate because the world is a dangerous place right now,\u201d Hogan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are seeing changing \u2026 trade relationships. We’re seeing wars. We’re seeing the effects of climate change. And we need Canada to be there with our \u2018A\u2019 game. And we can’t do that if we’re fighting with each other, if we’re divided with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
Calgary Chamber of Commerce CEO Deborah Yedlin, who also attended Sunday\u2019s breakfast, said the business community is feeling as though there has been \u201clight years\u201d of progress compared to this time last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, everybody wants to see results,\u201d Yedlin said. \u201cBut still, we weren\u2019t even at the starting gate at Stampede last year. So this is definitely an important place to be right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Calgary Stampede wraps up Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may have been the final day of the 10-day Calgary Stampede exhibition and rodeo, but two pancake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-798435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Ranchman\u2019s Cookhouse and Dancehall was the site of a pancake breakfast held Sunday, hosted by the pro-Alberta independence group Let Alberta Decide. (Joel Dryden\/CBC)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783919899_738_default.jpg\")
Calgarian Leslie Zapfe said she was unconvinced by a recently proposed pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast, saying the government paying for the project made it a failure in her eyes. (Joel Dryden\/CBC)Carney makes visit to Stampede<\/p>\n