Premier Danielle Smith told Rebel News reporter Angelica Toy that Mark Carney did not kill the revival of the Keystone XL pipeline when he walked away from trade negotiations with the Trump administration. She noted that the Southbow and Bridger pipelines are already using 1,550 kilometres of existing Keystone infrastructure and are working toward a final investment decision.

Smith said she has offered Carney her full support to pledge an additional million or two million barrels a day to help close a deal — but that she was not at the table and cannot speak to what was actually discussed between Canadian and American officials.

Premier Smith tells Rebel News' @_angelica_toy that Alberta is considering a $10,000 fine and jail time for illegally dumping garbage in parks or along roadsides.

"We take it quite seriously," she said, encouraging the public to share their thoughts on the issue. pic.twitter.com/1n6GaiORrA

— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) September 1, 2026

Sheila Gunn Reid, Lise Merle, and former leader of the Opposition Stockwell Day reacted on Wednesday's Buffalo Roundtable — and said the problem is that nobody outside the room actually knows what happened.

The New York Times reported that Carney initially raised the idea of reviving the Keystone XL pipeline, but that in the final hours Canada expressed reluctance to cooperate, with a Canadian official saying the deal on offer was not good enough to make the pipeline worthwhile.

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Carney's public account, meanwhile, told a different story: the Americans had attacked Quebec culture, threatened Canada's sovereignty over who it could trade with, and left Canada no choice but to walk away. 

The U.S. trade representative flatly contradicted both the French language claim and the sovereignty framing, saying the word French was never even mentioned and that the actual concern was transshipment — the practice of Chinese-dominant goods entering the U.S. through Canada.

"There are transcripts of all of this," Day said. "Everything gets recorded even though it's behind closed doors. Those recordings are there. We need to know who was fibbing and who was not."

Sheila agreed. "The only way to know for sure is to recall Parliament," she said, "and tell us exactly what you walked away from." She also pushed back firmly on the suggestion that asking these questions amounts to taking the American side.

"I completely reject the contention that it is somehow unpatriotic to question the Liberals' line on this," she said. "It is the Opposition's duty to oppose the government and to find facts on behalf of Canadians. It is not traitorous to ask these questions."

Lise noted the broader embarrassment of the situation. "We elected an 'economic genius.'" she said. "Why is it that we don't have a deal? Why is it that every other nation has a deal? It looks like Canada is being petulant — and I think they are."

The Buffalo Roundtable airs Wednesdays at 11 a.m. MT / 1 p.m. ET.