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Premier Rachel Notley said Friday that opposition to pipelines by the newly elected leader of the federal NDP has little bearing on the ongoing debate over the projects.

Jagmeet Singh made a campaign-style swing through Vancouver, where he reiterated that he is against both the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain line to the Pacific Coast and TransCanada’s recently shelved Energy East project.

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Speaking to reporters in Calgary, Notley — whose Alberta NDP government has backed both pipelines — noted Trans Mountain has already been approved by the federal government and suggested she wouldn’t lose much sleep over Singh’s position.

“I’m not going to get too wrapped up in what people who are not in government are doing in other parts of the country, in hypothetical conversations, over which they have no agency,” she said following an event at the Fairmont Palliser.

“I’m going to continue to promote the fact … this is not just good for Alberta, it is good for all of Canada.”