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Carr said the money will allow companies to survive when cash flows are low and loans difficult to get, adding, “It’s not free money.”

Notley doesn’t want free money, but for the federal government to do more to secure market access.

“We didn’t ask for the opportunity to go further into debt as a means of addressing this problem, what we asked for was for them to remove the handcuffs,” she said.

“Folks here in Calgary and across Alberta can make a profit out of oil and gas and share that with the rest of the country, but (the federal government needs) to take the handcuffs off so that can happen.”

Nobody from Notley’s NDP government was at the federal announcement Tuesday.

The premier said she suspects that’s because they knew Alberta would be unhappy with the plan, and slammed the federal government for not listening to the province or industry.

“This does not reflect the kind of responsiveness that we need to see,” she said.

‘When Alberta hurts, so does Canada’

There was one item on which the federal and provincial governments agreed — that pipelines are fundamental to Alberta’s — and Canada’s — economy.