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A 19-member panel will “end the games” British Columbia insists on playing with the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, Premier Rachel Notley said Wednesday as the group gathered for its first meeting in Edmonton.

Sitting around the cabinet table inside the legislature or beamed in via Skype, the 19-member market access task force prepared to figure out possible retaliatory steps and hash out plans of attack in the face of any future attempts to frustrate the $7.4-billion project, Notley said.

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“Make no mistake — we are not standing still,” she told the group.

“This project was approved in the national interest and it must be built in the national interest. We are not going to stand down until that happens.”

When it comes to protecting Canada’s coastlines, she said, Alberta is with B.C. 100 per cent.

“The issue is, however, that B.C. cannot pretend they are not part of the country. They don’t get to assume rights that they don’t have,” she said.