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QUEBEC — Premier François Legault has welcomed Alberta premier-designate Jason Kenney’s offer to work together, but has repeated there is no social acceptability for a new oil pipeline crossing Quebec.

Describing Kenney’s decision to address him in French in his victory speech as “elegant,” Legault warmly said it’s true he and Kenney both want to work on economic development in both provinces.

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Answering Kenney’s question about whether Quebec wants “ethical oil” from the west or oil from the United States and foreign dictatorships, Legault flipped around the comment to note Quebec already gets 53 per cent of its oil from Western Canada via the Enbridge pipeline.

The two provinces are in talks to develop another pipeline — the 750-kilometre GNL Québec project — which will carry natural gas from Alberta, across northern Ontario and through the Abitibi region to a natural gas liquefaction complex at Port Saguenay.