{"id":38420,"date":"2026-05-09T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/38420\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:11:08","slug":"ottawa-alberta-pact-under-pressure-over-fine-print-fp-video-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/38420\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa, Alberta pact under pressure over fine print. FP Video explains"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1221 Oil companies are getting impatient with the lack of progress in negotiations between the federal government and Alberta. (Credit: David Bloom\/Postmedia) <\/p>\n

This week, FP Video asks if the memorandum of understanding between Ottawa and Alberta<\/a> for a new pipeline has already passed its sell-by date, we speak with the CEO of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers\u2019 Association<\/a> about the importance of the American market<\/a> to Canadian automakers, and Martin Pelletier talks about the disconnect between the ever-climbing stock market darlings and the average investor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Is the MOU cooked? <\/p>\n

Negotiations between Canada and Alberta over their energy Memorandum of Understanding took a turn this week when an oilsands industry group issued a statement arguing the talks were taking too long. It said an opportunity for a pipeline deal could \u201cpass Canada by.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canadian auto industry can\u2019t exist without U.S. access: Brian Kingston <\/p>\n

Brian Kingston, chief executive of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers\u2019 Association, talks with Financial Post\u2019s Larysa Harapyn about the Canadian auto industry\u2019s dilemma.<\/p>\n

The disconnect between Main Street and Wall Street <\/p>\n

Martin Pelletier, senior portfolio manager with Trivest Wealth at Wellington-Altus Private Counsel, explains why markets are booming when average Canadians are struggling.<\/p>\n

Summer travel demand \u2018still very strong\u2019 despite increased fuel costs <\/p>\n

Chris Lynes, managing director Flight Centre Travel Group Canada, talks about how summer travel demand is \u2018still very strong\u2019 despite increased fuel costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oil companies are getting impatient with the lack of progress in negotiations between the federal government and Alberta.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[164,16510,16507,16509,16508,61],"class_list":["post-38420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-alberta","tag-brian-kingston","tag-canadian-vehicle-manufacturers-association","tag-fp-video","tag-martin-pelletier","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}