Subhead:Eby is accusing Alberta of undermining national unity, while his own government previously challenged federal constitutional authority over interprovincial pipeline approvals, which has fueled separatist sentiment.#
B.C. Premier David Eby is warning that Canada “cannot work” if “separatist premiers” receive attention from Ottawa over major projects.
Eby’s own record on pipelines looks a lot more like constitutional freelancing than anything Alberta is currently doing.
For years, British Columbia fought the federally approved TMX pipeline expansion through court challenges, regulatory barriers, and political opposition, despite interprovincial pipelines clearly falling under federal jurisdiction.
Courts repeatedly ruled that provinces do not have the constitutional authority to block federally approved interprovincial pipelines.
David Eby is the separatist.
He separated B.C. from the constitution, arrogating the power to block a pipeline, to spite a neighbour that he hates. He doesn’t have that power — that’s a federal power. But he’s acting like a king of a country, with Mark Carney’s approval. https://t.co/dH0BOO2l2F
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) May 20, 2026
Eby is behaving like “the real separatist” — acting as though B.C. can selectively ignore federal constitutional authority when it dislikes a national project.
