War! Alberta tells BC to take its wine, electricity and stick it

Alberta Premier Rachel Notely has told her BC counterpart John Horgan to take his wine and stick it. She’s banned it from Alberta liquor stores and encouraged consumers to treat it like poison. Same thing goes for BC electricity. Not welcome in Edmonton or anywhere else in Alberta. It’s the war that kicks NDP fretting about the environment to the sidelines as Notely fights for petroleum jobs and an economy that stands on two legs — oil and oil. Horgan’s government depends on its continued existence from the Green Party. He is saying that his resistance to the Kinder Morgan Pipeline should not be the cause of a trade war. Kinder Morgan has been approved by the federal government. Their interest in moving Canadian crude to the sea grows daily as the new world of hardball trade with the US is all too real. Canada hopes to find markets to sustain the country’s nearly 80 years of unparalleled prosperity in a world where it may no longer be the biggest trade partner to the Americans. Now add the growing worry over Canada’s merchandise trade deficit. It was a ballooning $3.2 billion in December as rising imports outpaced export growth.