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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is hoping to persuade Quebec Premier François Legault to accept a new oil pipeline on Quebec territory.

“He is a man with an open mind and we will continue the discussion,” Kenney said at the end of an hour-long meeting in the Legault’s office Wednesday evening.

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“I held my position that we are not open to an oil pipeline,” Legault said in a brief scrum with reporters as he left the meeting.

In December, Legault outraged Albertans by calling tarsands oil “dirty energy,” a term he did not repeat this time.

Earlier Wednesday, Kenney reminded an audience in Montreal that Quebecers are consuming 60,000 barrels of oil a day, and urged them to buy oil from their own rather than foreign producers. He said Alberta’s oil is the least polluting in the world and comes from a country where human rights are respected.

“It’s a reasonable market,” he added.

Kenney made the remarks during a discussion held during the International Economic Forum of the Americas being held in Montreal. The premier said he hoped Quebecers understood “the frustration of Albertans” over federal policies that prevented them from putting money into Canadian coffers — money that Quebec has profited from over the years.