Strip away a year of political maneuvering, and the B.C. government has ended up with the kind of pipeline deal that was most people expected from the start: a bucketload of federal cash in exchange for begrudgingly allowing a new oil pipeline from Alberta to the southern coast. That was the core of the agreement between Premier David Eby and Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday. It took months of negotiation to sort out numbers, deadlines and wording.