Thoughts on BC Politics and More

There is so much energy in Alberta right now. It feels like change is in the air. So today I say to all those who have been struggling, to those who have lost their jobs and are barely hanging on, to the young folks who can’t find work, to the small business owners who struggle every day, to our wonderful public servants who are frustrated with a bureaucracy that doesn’t let them do their jobs - to all of them - we send this message: Help is on the way and hope is on the horizon. The NDP is finishing this campaign the way they started it: with fear and smear, U.S. style attack ads and the politics of personal destruction. And the United Conservatives are finishing the campaign the way we started it. With positive solutions on how to create jobs, grow our economy, get pipelines built and to fight for a fair deal for Alberta. That is why we are offering the most positive and detailed platform in Alberta’s history. And if we ar...

Alberta’s Minister of Energy the Honourable Margaret McvCuag-Boyd Early last week Alberta’s Minister of Energy, the Honourable Margaret McCuaig-Boyd, announced a, " More efficient regulatory process means new oil and gas projects can begin operating faster, creating jobs and maintaining competitiveness as Alberta leads the country in growth ." Apparently, the new regulatory system will process applications quicker, prevent companies from having to repeatedly submit the same information, as well as having just one application to have one review, and one decision. Margaret McCuaig-Boyd stated, “ This new system, when completed, will bundle all of the applications, associated with a development, into a single application. This will cut timelines for approval dramatically, and save industry hundreds of millions of dollars a year .” She went on, “ The process makes use of software to eliminate the need for businesses to submit the same informatio...