VANCOUVER - Alberta's Premier Alison Redford made a plea for Canada's leaders to work together, while at the same time she took a poke at British Columbia's premier.

Redford told a convention of the Canadian Bar Association in Vancouver today that Canada's premiers need to work together for the future of the Canada -- not for the next election cycle.

British Columbia's election is next May, and Redford and B.C. Premier Christy Clark have been in an open dispute over Clark's demands that her province get a larger share of revenue from the proposed oil pipeline leading to the Pacific ocean.

Clark walked out of a premier's gathering last month after refusing to sign an energy strategy over her demand for more royalties from the $6-billion Northern Gateway pipeline project.

In her speech, Alberta's premier reiterated a call for Canada to have a national energy strategy.

Redford told reporters later that there was no need for her to meet Clark during her visit to Vancouver, because the B.C. premier had already made her position clear.

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