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Outside the Alberta legislature, Notley wouldn’t say if she would cut off B.C. or the rest of Canada, but did say her government is ready to pass legislation to make happen with the “key focus of getting people’s attention on the matter.”

“We’re not interested in creating any kind of crisis in any way, shape or form. We’re going to be measured. We’re going to be careful,” Notley said.

B.C.’s environment and climate change minister, George Heyman, expressed some skepticism over whether Notley would follow through and suggested Alberta should look for legal a legal resolution instead.

“I see no reason to believe Alberta would take unfair or unlawful action against British Columbia,” Heyman said in a scrum with reporters, because B.C. is simply “proposing some regulations that are well within our jurisdiction.”

“We’re determined to defend our environment, our economy and our coast line,” Heyman said.

Heyman added that B.C. has “tried to be the adults in the room here, and we would expect to settle the dispute in an area that they thought was unlawful in the courts where it belongs.”

B.C. recently said it would refer its threat to block shipment of oilsands bitumen through B.C. to the court for a ruling on provincial jurisdiction. That led Notley to lift her ban on B.C. wine.

Notley said that at this point all she is doing is to make sure “that our tools are at the ready, because it is important for Albertans to understand that we are going to stand up to protect the interests of Albertans on this matter.”