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Alberta’s political leaders are pushing different plans to combat the oil price differential clobbering energy producers, with Premier Rachel Notley opting for crude-by-rail and Opposition leader Jason Kenney championing mandatory industry cuts.

“We need the federal government at the table, treating it like the crisis it is,” said Notley Wednesday in a speech she delivered at the Canadian Club of Ottawa.

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She announced Alberta will buy trains to move an an additional 120,000 barrels per day out of the province, starting late 2019. The full complement of rail cars would ship out in 2020.

Notley had asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to boost rail capacity to provide relief, but the federal finance minister hinted that Ottawa was leaning away from that option.

Minister Bill Morneau, who was in Calgary Tuesday, said it would take at least nine months to increase rail capacity, though didn’t flat-out reject the idea.