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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney came to Quebec with a message of economic partnership between East and West, announcing on Tuesday he will open an office in Montreal to promote Alberta’s energy sector and improve political and economic relations between the provinces.

The news was tempered, however, by the suggestion that pipeline-wary Quebecers should be more appreciative of the resource-rich hand that has long fed them.

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“Quebecers and Albertans can and should be partners in prosperity,” Kenney said in an interview with the Montreal Gazette’s editorial board.

The premier is on a one-week trip to Quebec and Washington, D.C., to promote investments and pipelines, meeting with media, business leaders and U.S. governors. The new office will be run by a former Quebecer who has spent several years in Alberta. It is slated to open this spring.

Quebec and Alberta share a historical alliance as defenders of the Canadian Constitution, Kenney said. He has developed a positive working relationship with Quebec Premier François Legault, sharing a similar vision on the need to protect provincial jurisdictions, he added.