Alberta Premier Rachel Notley will not attend this weekend’s NDP Convention in Ottawa.

Her office confirmed to iPolitics on Monday that the NDP premier will not be travelling to the nation’s capital for the three-day party gathering. It is unclear whether anyone from the Alberta NDP government will attend this weekend’s Convention, which kicks off Friday.

“It was something I was never intending to do,” Notley told reporters in Edmonton Monday afternoon when asked why she wasn’t attending Convention. She said she had a “a lot of stuff” to do, including preparing for the upcoming Spring session and a Throne Speech.

“My focus is on Alberta. I know that’s not necessarily the case for Alberta politicians these days, but my focus is definitely on spending my time here in Alberta working for Albertans.”

Notley’s absence comes amidst mounting tensions between Alberta and British Columbia over the future of the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline.

British Columbia Premier John Horgan, another NDP premier, recently announced plans for more consultations on oil spill readiness and a limit on increased diluted bitumen shipments until it’s confident in response measures.

Notley has retaliated by imposing a ban on B.C. wine imports, saying Horgan’s actions are “unconstitutional.”

She created a special task force Friday to advise her government on the B.C. dispute. The task force includes former New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna, former Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan, former Syncrude Canada President Jim Carter and legal scholar Peter Hogg.

iPolitics has reached out to Horgan’s office to see whether he plans to attend the weekend’s NDP festivities. The premier’s office has yet to respond.

The party’s last federal Convention was held in Edmonton in 2016 where Notley delivered a blunt keynote address that urged her fellow NDP members to start thinking “more charitably” of Albertans and recognize the province’s significant need for a pipeline to tidewater.\

Notley said Monday the reason she attended that party gathering because it was being held in Edmonton.

The upcoming NDP Convention will be the party’s first since Jagmeet Singh was named party leader in 2017.