# Carney and Danielle Smith sign a pipeline MOU that exempts a new line from the emissions cap

Date: 2025

## The fact

In November 2025 [Carney](/people/mark-carney) reached a memorandum of understanding with Alberta premier Danielle Smith to build an oil pipeline from Alberta to the BC coast. The MOU exempts the project from climate legislation such as the GHG emissions cap, with Alberta to invest in oil-sands carbon capture. Steven Guilbeault resigned from Cabinet.

## Context

David Eby, most local First Nations, and some Liberal MPs opposed. Neighbouring One Canadian Economy Act is the parent speed statute. He did not certificate the pipe himself.

One Canadian Economy Act is the parent. EV-mandate pause is a neighbour climate file.

The Prime Minister of Canada heads the federal ministry, advises the Governor General, and sets Cabinet weather. He does not write a Bank of Canada overnight rate by himself once he has left that building, a US IEEPA tariff, a provincial pipeline certificate, or a Brookfield board minute after a blind trust. A housing target is not a unique completed unit count. A climate-envoy speech is not a later pipeline MOU.

## Evidence and sources

Prime Minister’s Office carries the official instrument or communique. CBC News records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is energy and climate: a completed emissions-cap exemption for a new export pipeline.

## What is established and what is not

Established: November 2025 MOU and Guilbeault resignation, independently reported.

Not established: that the pipe was thereby built that month, or a unique later export-barrel coefficient.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

BC and First Nations share the opposed-neighbour file. Guilbeault left Cabinet.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Carney and Danielle Smith sign a pipeline MOU that exempts a new line from the emissions cap, not a later speech about Carney and Danielle Smith sign a pipeline MOU that exempts a new line from the emissions cap.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Carney and Danielle Smith sign a pipeline MOU that exempts a new line from the emissions cap on 2025-11-15 is not a licence to treat every later Prime Minister’s Office communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Carney and Danielle Smith sign a pipeline MOU that exempts a new line from the emissions cap into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He and Smith signed. BC and First Nations share the opposed-neighbour file. Guilbeault left Cabinet. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Mark Carney: https://factrail.ai/people/mark-carney

## Drivers

- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security
- Natural-Gas Supply Diversification: https://factrail.ai/drivers/natural-gas-supply-diversification

## Sources

- https://www.cbc.ca/news/
- https://www.pm.gc.ca/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ca-alberta-pipeline-2025