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Bill Morneau isn’t getting aboard Rachel Notley’s oil-by-rail plan to boost crude shipments out of Alberta.

But the federal finance minister didn’t completely derail the idea on Tuesday as a short-term way of alleviating the price discount thrashing Canadian oil producers.

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The province is growing testy waiting for an answer, and the premier signalled Wednesday her government is now moving ahead on its plan to buy rail cars to move more oil out of Alberta.

Alberta’s premier recently asked the Trudeau government to consider helping purchase rail cars and locomotives in an attempt to increase the amount of crude moving out of the province by train as existing pipelines are congested.

Morneau seemed to dismiss the idea last weekend, saying it would take at least nine months to execute such a plan.

Speaking during and after a Calgary Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Morneau was asked several times Tuesday if the federal government would pony up money for enhanced rail options.