I was home, with the noon news on, when I heard David Eby taking questions about the federal deal with Alberta on a new pipeline.

Wow. He’s done. David Eby has just had it up to here, hasn’t he?

There’s a lot on Eby’s plate these days, provincially, not to mention from the perpetual poking from the east. Directly east (Alberta), and further east (Ottawa).

Side note: I was surprised David Eby wanted to be premier. I remember being surprised that he even wanted to enter politics. I remembered him as the head of the BC Civil Liberties Association. Before he became my MLA, before they changed the borders of the riding, I remember being introduced to him by Spencer Chandra Herbert at an event with voters. Why Eby was even there seemed mysterious. Politics didn’t seem like his thing.

I feel he must have been recruited into politics, and then maybe he was recruited to be leader of the BC NDP. How he was never eaten alive by that party is a mystery to me, but he survived. And did ok. And here he is, at this point in Canadian history, and he’s had it.

He’s seen Mark Carney a lot in the past year, not just in those awkward photo ops and private dinners. There was the Lapu Lapu day mourning and the Tumbler Ridge mourning. BC’ers were shafted by the Feds who didn’t give any tariff relief for lumber. It’s been a shitty year, a stressful year. To hear Eby tell it earlier today, Carney is willing to risk $88 billion in committed projects in BC to advance the possibility (mere possibility) of a new pipeline to Asia.

While Eby was appearing with the stars of various BC Hydro ad campaigns, Carney was standing in the rain in Quebec, announcing shovels in the ground in a mine there. He answered questions about a temporary loss to Canadian culture this year, as the Snowbirds will stop flying for a few years until they get new planes.

The Snowbirds typically practice in the Spring in Vancouver Island, and during that time regularly fly over the home of my close relative. Seeing them is an annual tradition that appears to be going away.

Carney and Eby are due to meet tomorrow, but who knows what will exactly occur except Carney saying, “well, it’s done, you know, it’s done.” I can’t imagine Eby coming out of that meeting with anything other than a pat on the head.

I get that we have to sell oil places besides the U.S. But I don’t see why we have to be sacrificing everything else to achieve that. BC is known for one thing: natural beauty. We don’t need AI data centres, we don’t need pipelines… or more than the ones we already have.

I am all for the idea of building Canada strong, but I am less and less convinced placating Alberta is the lynchpin of the solution. I frankly don’t get it, so I blame Tim Hodgson. There’s corruption somewhere and it’s either Mark or Tim or both.

Like Eby, Hodgson had no interest in politics until Carney recruited him in apparently to punch up the oil sector. I say, fuck off. Until you can be honest with us in B.C. that you’re fucking us over, or you’re ready to at least see things from our perspective, just fuck off.

That’s all I got.