Category: Politics

Premier Rachel Notley is appointing a team to work with key energy leaders on bold solutions for closing the historically high oil price gap that is robbing the Canadian economy of more than $80 million a day. The price of our resources continues to be driven down thanks to Canada’s decades-long failure to build new…

Joe Ceci, President of Treasury Board and Minister of Finance, issued the following statement on the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision regarding the federal government’s constitutional authority to create a national securities regulator: “The Government of Alberta acknowledges the court’s decision to uphold the proposed pan-Canadian regulatory model as contemplated by the Memorandum of Agreement,…

Alberta’s Auditor General Doug Wylie presented his first report to the Legislative Assembly November 7. The report includes the 2017-2018 financial statement audit results of the province and 139 government ministries, departments, agencies, boards, commissions and regulated funds; three new and five follow-up performance audits; and summary of recommendations issued to government. In his report,…

EDMONTON, AB (November 8, 2018): After initially rejecting the UCP’s common sense amendments on Bill 21, An Act to Protect Patients, the NDP has taken an unprecedented move, reversed course, and accepted UCP advice on a lifetime ban for doctors who commit sexual abuse. “The doctor-patient relationship is a sacred trust. It was unfathomable that the…

EDMONTON, AB: The NDP today voted down a United Conservative amendment to Bill 21, An Act to Protect Patients, that would have extended the proposed ban for physicians and other regulated health professionals who are caught sexually abusing their patients. “The United Conservative Caucus strongly believes that any health professional caught abusing patients should never be…

The Alberta government has appointed three new judges to the Provincial Court of Alberta to ensure Albertans have more timely and representative access to justice. Cheryl Arcand-Kootenay was appointed to St. Paul Provincial Court and Melanie Hayes-Richards was appointed to Provincial Court, Edmonton Criminal. Michelle Christopher was appointed to Medicine Hat Provincial Court – the…

EDMONTON, AB (November 9, 2018) – The decision by a Montana federal judge to block TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, a much-needed pipeline to get resources to market, is clearly the result of a judge playing politics and the decision needs to be appealed, Alberta’s United Conservatives said today. “The latest ruling on Keystone XL is a…

Edmonton, AB: With 184,000 Albertans unemployed and the unemployment rate moving up to 7.3 per cent, it’s clear that NDP policies are making a bad situation worse. “While an out-of-touch NDP continues to tell Albertans how good they have it, we know that that many Albertans are still struggling to make ends meet,” said Richard Gotfried,…

EDMONTON, AB: In Question Period last week, United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney exposed the NDP deception surrounding its so-called ‘path to balance’ when he caught both the Premier and Minister of Economic Development and Trade trying to cover their tracks by falsely claiming the NDP’s balanced budget plan isn’t based on raising the carbon tax –…

By Jason Nixon, United Conservative House Leader Rachel Notley has sure been changing her lines a lot these days. I remember, on May 29, when the Premier, with her entire caucus standing behind her, guaranteed us, “The Trans Mountain expansion project is more certain than ever.” She followed it up with this self-congratulating promise: “We…

EDMONTON, AB: The NDP government defeated a United Conservative motion that would have seen a united Assembly call on the federal government to immediately withdraw Bill C-69, Justin Trudeau’s No More Pipelines legislation. This proves once and for all that the NDP has no intention of standing up for Alberta against its close friends and allies…

Minister of Finance and President of Treasury Board Joe Ceci released the following statement after members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) who work in the Alberta public service ratified a new contract: “We welcome news that AUPE members in the public service have ratified a contract with job security and no pay…

Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips issued the following statement following her meetings with federal government senators about Bill C-69: “In a few weeks, Bill C-69, An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, will be debated by Canada’s 95 senators. Today, I was pleased to be in Ottawa to…

CALGARY, ALBERTA – The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) is asking the federal government to pause and review its plans for Bill C-69 and further consider the long-term impacts to the country and Canadians. By working collaboratively with the oil and natural gas industry and other stakeholders, the government can make the Bill what…