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Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage will take part in a scheduled conference call Monday with OPEC and its allies, as the group searches for a way out of a brutal oil price war that has pounded the energy industry.

In Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada is talking with the U.S. and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries about energy issues and the impact of low prices.

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In Edmonton, Premier Jason Kenney indicated the province will join the international oil talks but reiterated he wants to co-operate with the United States and study imposing tariffs on continental oil imports.

To make sense of the topsy-turvy situation, one must understand this essential point: Everyone is now hurting in the battle.

“I don’t think anyone can live with prices this low,” Jackie Forrest of ARC Energy Research Institute said Friday.

“The fact senior political leaders are talking about the potential for collaboration shows you there’s a lot of pain here.”