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Alberta will support a nationwide tax on carbon as long as all revenue stays in the province where it was raised, Premier Rachel Notley said Tuesday on the eve of a federal-provincial meeting on climate change in Vancouver.

“Canada needs to leave behind its former global brand as climate change deniers, and Canada must therefore leave behind the failed policies of the past,” Notley said as she prepared to attend a meeting to follow up on commitments Canada made in Paris last year.

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“Canada must step up into a new and better role as one of the world’s most environmentally progressive economies and one of the world’s most environmentally progressive energy producers.”

The premier said she wants to see an outcome in Vancouver that respects and acknowledges the work that Alberta has done so far.

“Alberta’s interests are to ensure that the work that we’ve committed to doing is seen as adequate,” she said. “I believe it will be because I think, in fact, it represents probably in many aspects of it the biggest move in the country.”