The proposed 3,300-kilometre pipeline would carry at least half a million barrels of oil a day to refineries owned by Suncor, Shell, and Imperial Oil. But just four days earlier, Smith had announced another energy project—the “West Coast Oil Pipeline” from Bruderheim, Alberta, to Delta, British Columbia—with Prime Minister Mark Carney. That pipeline will be 90 percent funded by a government-owned company, with 10 percent of its multi-billion-dollar cost coming from Pembina Pipeline Corporation. The pipeline to Ontario currently has no private sector proponent, no federal government involvement yet, and no projected timeline. And he’s already facing backlash for supporting another pipeline project which would carry liquefied natural gas to the Port of Churchill.