The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that fresh hopes for another West Coast pipeline is a major step forward in making the Canadian economy less reliant on the U.S. export market. A Globe editorial says the designation of Pacific Link as a project of national interest also sends an invaluable message to Albertans as they decide on how to vote in an Oct. 19 referendum on separation. The announcement last week is a remarkable rebuttal to the doomsaying of Alberta separatists that Canada is broken. It's not a perfect solution: The pipeline is largely a government-backed project, with Pembina ending up with somewhere between a 10-per-cent and 20-per-cent interest. Indigenous communities will be able to buy at least 10 per cent of the pipeline, backed by loan guarantees. There remain significant issues to be overcome. The carbon sequestration project that is notionally paired with the pipeline cannot be allowed to wither away. Consultation, and almost certainly some kind of accommodation, with indigenous communities is still needed. Much work remains to be done. But Thursday should be seen as a piece of history, a day that shows what determination can do, and a day that this country grew a little stronger.