{"id":924130,"date":"2026-10-07T14:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/924130\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T14:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:52:13","slug":"carney-faces-threat-of-quebec-independence-row-amid-trump-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/924130\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney Faces Threat of Quebec Independence Row Amid Trump Trade War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Polling from <a class=\"rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/338canada.com\/alberta\/polls-indy.htm\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">338Canada<\/a> on Sept. 20 showed 74% of Albertans wish to remain in Canada.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Carney\u2019s government has meanwhile sought to court support in Alberta through new business proposals, including a <a class=\"rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/privy-council\/major-projects-office\/projects\/other\/referred\/alberta.html\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">high-speed rail<\/a> line that would connect Calgary to Edmonton via Red Deer, linking Alberta&#8217;s two largest cities, and the Pacific Link oil pipeline project, which would carry crude oil from Bruderheim, Alberta, to a deep-water port near Delta, British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cThat\u2019s the scale of what Alberta and Canada can achieve\u2014and the speed with which we can achieve it\u2013when we work together,\u201d Carney<a class=\"rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pm.gc.ca\/en\/news\/speeches\/2026\/10\/01\/prime-minister-carney-lists-west-coast-oil-pipeline-now-known-pacific-link\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> said<\/a> on Oct. 1, announcing that Canada will fast-track the approval process for the pipeline. \u201cAnd we will build together\u2014with Alberta, British Columbia, and every province and territory\u2014in the true spirit of cooperative federalism, harnessing the full force of a united Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">But experts say Carney must strike a careful balance, with efforts to address separatist discontent in Alberta potentially influencing perceptions elsewhere, particularly in Quebec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polling from 338Canada on Sept. 20 showed 74% of Albertans wish to remain in Canada. Carney\u2019s government has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-924130","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\/924130","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=924130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}