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It doesn’t seem like much of a “cross-country tour” when you get down to it.

Premier Rachel Notley’s pro-pipeline expedition took her to Toronto and Ottawa on Monday and Tuesday, and is now taking her all the way to, um, Calgary on Friday.

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She’ll be speaking to the city’s chamber of commerce.

Next week, she’ll travel to Vancouver to speak to the city’s board of trade before delivering her final pro-pipeline speech Dec. 7 to a group not noted for its anti-pipeline stance: the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce.

But there is method to her “cross-country” madness.

This is not a shotgun approach to promote any old pipeline to as many people as possible.

Notley is targeting national business leaders on Bay Street and federal politicians in Ottawa, as well as B.C.’s business elites in Vancouver.

This is a tour to highlight the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline designed to pump more of Alberta’s oil and bitumen to the West Coast for shipment to Asia.