EDMONTON – Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says it wasn’t inappropriate for her labour minister to show up at a picket line of Canada Post workers.

Edmonton NDP legislature member Christina Gray visited the line and posed with some striking workers for a photo that was posted on Twitter.

A spokesman for the minister says she was there to support postal workers without taking sides in the dispute.

United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney described Gray’s visit as strange and showing poor judgment.

Notley says Gray’s attendance would have been inappropriate if the labour dispute were a provincial matter.

But she says the rotating walkouts across the country are Ottawa’s concern.