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Throughout my tenure as a city councillor, member of Parliament, cabinet minister and mayor, I have come to a singular conclusion — progress is not born from winning arguments, it is forged through the steady, often difficult work of building trust, seeking common ground and choosing collaboration over conflict.

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It is with this spirit of pragmatism that I enter 2026 with a renewed sense of optimism for the Ottawa-Alberta relationship. The recent memorandum of understanding signed by Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith suggests we are moving past decades of acrimony and toward a partnership defined by shared economic goals and the national interest.

The dynamic between Ottawa and Alberta has followed a weary pattern — federal mandates met by provincial resistance and years of litigation. We saw this play out with the consumer carbon price, a sound strategy that became so........

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