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JANUARY 18, 2019// VOL.3 ISSUE 2

THE INSIDE THIS ISSUE: News Briefs 2 Who’s Doing Business With Government? 2 2019 Election Candidate Update 3-6 REPORT On the Agenda 6 Consultations / Lobbyist Update 7

THE CLOCK IS SET The Spring Sitting of the Legislature is scheduled to begin March 18th, with a Speech from the Throne. Whether the house will sit beyond that date – and if so, for scheduled for the weekend of February 15 - 17 in . how long – or even arrive at that date before an election is Expect both parties to approach the end of February with called remains a matter of much debate. some strong economic messaging, ahead of the government’s According to the newly released legislative calendar, a scheduled third-quarter fiscal update. It’s expected to be less 12-week session would run until the first week of June and rosy than the last. It’s possible the NDP could look to release include three constituency breaks. This will of course be that information sooner than later – ahead of the Family Day interrupted by an election, which must occur between May 1 long weekend perhaps – in the hope that it gets lost by the and March 31. torrent of economic and political news coming at month’s end. Those making election projections have much to consider. If judging by precedent alone, this coming session marks a This includes the National Energy Board’s February 22 later start than normal for the NDP. With the exception of TMX review deadline, key federal by-elections that will its inaugural Throne Speech in June 2015 following their impact the federal election, and the provincial government’s historic election, government has delivered the speech in handling of expressions of interests for oil refinery projects – and around the onset of March, rather than the middle – and the deadline for which is February 8. always on a Tuesday or Thursday, rather than the Monday on With emotions building and all sides eager to clash, which has been scheduled this year. will need to judge the merits of timing. A If the government delivers this year’s speech as scheduled, longer build-up to the actual election call might benefit and drops the writ immediately thereafter, thus sidestepping her party by exposing contentious UCP nomination battles the sparring of daily Question Period, the earliest an election to further media spotlight. But waiting too long risks would be held would be Monday, April 15. unintended consequences of events beyond her control, and the rising angst related to ’s deficit and lack of market For those making election plans, as in Alberta’s two main access. political juggernauts in the NDP and UCP, a few other dates will hold their attention in the days and weeks ahead. At the As Albertans begin to pay closer attention to Alberta’s end of this month, Premier Notley’s cabinet will retreat to aspiring leaders, shifting polling in key battlegrounds could for a final strategic getaway before the election. This prove all the temptation needed for Notley to make the short happens as the party wraps up campaign training seminars walk to the Lieutenant Governor’s office sooner rather than for volunteers. A similar training weekend for the UCP is later.

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NEWS BRIEFS WHO’S DOING BUSINESS Advanced Education Minister has WITH GOVERNMENT? announced that the Alberta College of Art and Design The province paid more than $3 billion in supplies, services will officially become the Alberta University of the Arts and procurement card payments in the six-month period (AUArts), the province’s first university dedicated to fine ending September 30, 2018 per information released by the arts and design. The new name and status formally comes Department of Treasury Board & Finance. Most of the largest into effect on Feb. 1. payments were made to infrastructure and transportation Transportation Minister has introduced companies, and to provide various social services. new regulations requiring road maintenance contractors Among the largest payments were: to cover speed reduction signs in construction zones when no one is actually working, aiming to end a long-standing Recipient of Payment Amount ($) irritant to drivers. Government is also limiting the distance PCL Construction Management Inc. 75,024,142.25 of highway lane closures, making sure signs leading to Ledcor Highways Ltd. 61,531,350.18 construction zones are consistent and creating longer Flatiron-Aecon Joint Venture 45,684,747.41 transition zones for slowing down. Aecon Transportation West Ltd. 38,778,283.44 Premier Rachel Notley announced the top baby names Graham Construction & Engineering 37,749,024.30 for 2018, in what is traditionally government’s most widely Volker Stevin Highways Ltd. 32,374,640.74 read news release of the year. Olivia was the most popular Bgis Global Integrated Solutions 31,255,541.42 name choice for baby girls for the fifth year in a row, with Supports For Permanency 29,740,212.20 Emma and Charlotte close behind. Liam has reclaimed the Wapiti Gravel Suppliers 27,664,775.49 top boy’s name in Alberta, taking the No. 1 spot back from Sandstar Construction Ltd. 27,625,462.04 Noah. Noah dropped from first to third place in the boys’ Northwestconnect General Partnership 26,152,901.84 names list, while Oliver jumped to the second most popular name spot. Border Paving Ltd. 25,234,834.05 Alberta Highway Services Ltd. 25,098,954.74 Infrastructure Minister Sandra Notley also joined Laprairie Works Inc. 24,186,168.95 Jansen in Calgary this week for a photo op at the Calgary E Construction Ltd. 23,653,601.84 Cancer Centre construction site, updating Albertans with Knelsen Sand & Gravel Ltd. 22,603,802.78 news that construction of the $1.4-billion research and Access Roads Edmonton Ltd. 21,925,571.14 treatment centre remains on time and on budget. Edon Properties Inc. 20,885,976.25 Capital City Link General Partnership 19,570,903.95 Suez Canada Waste Services Inc. 18,929,954.57 Alberta Blue Cross 18,290,492.75 Bcimc Realty Corporation 17,206,430.76 Enmax Energy Corporation 17,086,515.31 Bbpp Alberta Schools Limited 17,076,541.95 Stuart Olson Construction Ltd. 17,040,344.66 Ibm Canada Limited 16,913,828.90

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THE Calgary-Currie AP Lindsay Luhnau LIB Joshua Codd REPORT NDP UCP 2019 ELECTION Calgary-East AP Gar Gar The next election will be called in the spring of 2019. UCP Below is a list of nominated election candidates (coloured) Calgary-Edgemont AP Joanne Gui and those vying for the nomination in each of Alberta’s 87 ridings. Information current as of January 1. NDP Julia Hayter UCP Total candidate nominations to date: Calgary-Elbow AP Greg Clark : 56/87 NDP Janet Eremenko Liberal Party: 7/87 UCP : 37/87 United Conservative Party: 79/87 Calgary-Falconridge LIB Deepak Sharma Riding Party Nominee/ NDP Pramjit Singh Man Candidate(s) UCP Airdrie-Cochrane UCP Peter Guthrie Calgary-Fish Creek NDP Gurmit Bhachu NDP Steven Durrell UCP Airdrie-East AP Alex Luterbach Calgary-Foothills AP Jennifer Wyness UCP UCP Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock UCP Calgary-Glenmore AP Scott Appleby NDP Colin Piquette UCP Banff-Kananaskis AP Brenda Standton Calgary-Hays AP Chris Nowell NDP Cameron Westhead NDP Tory Tomblin UCP UCP Ric McIver Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul AP Glenn Anderson Calgary-Klein AP Kara Levis UCP David Hanson NDP Brooks- AP Jim Black UCP UCP Calgary-Lougheed AP Rachel Timmermans Calgary-Acadia AP Lana Bentley UCP UCP Calgary-McCall NDP Calgary-Beddington AP Karen McPherson UCP Jasraj Singh Hallan NDP Amanda Chapman Calgary-Mountain View AP Angela Kokott UCP Randy Kerr LIB Calgary-Bow AP Paul Godard NDP NDP UCP Caylan Ford UCP Calgary-North AP Gary Arora Calgary-Buffalo AP Omar Masood LIB Saliha Haq NDP NDP Kelly Mandryk UCP Tom Olsen UCP Devin Green Calgary-Cross UCP Tanis Fiss NDP Paul Frank Jun Lin Tommy Low Manpreet Sidhu JANUARY 18, 2019 // VOL.3 ISSUE 1 // PG.4

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Calgary-North East AP Nate Pike Edmonton-Castle AP Mohamad Rahall LIB Gul Khan Downs NDP NDP Gurbachan Brar UCP Ed Ammar UCP Edmonton-City AP Robert Philp Calgary-North West AP Andrew Bradley Centre NDP David Shepherd NDP UCP Lily Le UCP Edmonton-Decore AP Ali Haymour Calgary-Peigan NDP Joseph Pimlott NDP Chris Nielson UCP UCP Karen Principe Calgary-Shaw AP Bronson Ha Edmonton-Ellerslie AP Richard Corbin NDP Chuck McKenna UCP Todd Ross Calgary-South East AP NDP UCP Eva Kiryakos UCP Sherry Adams Calgary-Varsity AP Beth Barberree Faton Bislimi Sanjay Patel NDP Anne McGrath Edmonton-Glenora AP Glen Tickner UCP NDP Calgary-West UCP Mike Ellis UCP Marjorie Newman Camrose AP Kevin Smook Edmonton-Gold Bar AP Diana Ly NDP Morgan Bamford NDP Marlin Schmidt UCP UCP Cardston-Siksika UCP Edmonton-Highlands- AP Tish Prouse Central Peace-Notley NDP Marg McCuaig-Boyd Norwood NDP Janice Irwin UCP UCP Michael Kalyn Chestermere-Strathmore FCP George Lam UCP Atul Ranade Cypress-Medicine Hat NDP Peter Mueller Del Shupenia UCP Edmonton-Manning AP Manwar Kahn Drayton Valley-Devon LIB Ronald Brochu NDP Heather Sweet NDP Kieran Quirke UCP Harjinder Grewal UCP Mark Smith Edmonton-Meadows AP Amrit Matharu Drumheller-Stettler AP Mark Nikota UCP Joel Mullan UCP Nathan Horner Arundeep Sandhu Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview AP Jeffery Walters Sant Sharma NDP Edmonton-McClung AP UCP David Egan NDP UCP Laurie Mozeson

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Edmonton-Mill AP Anju Sharma Fort McMurray-Wood UCP Woods LIB Abdi Bakal Buffalo NDP Fort Saskatchewan- AP Marvin Olsen UCP Muhammad Afzal Vegreville NDP Jessica Littlewood David Fletcher UCP Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk Sophia Kahn Grande Prairie AP Grant Berg Nazia Naqvi UCP Baljit Singh Grande Prairie-Wapiti AP Jason James Heather Sworin UCP Edmonton-Northwest AP Judy Kim-Meneen Highwood NDP Erik Overland LIB Brandon Teixeira UCP Richard Sigurdson NDP Innisfail-Sylvan Lake UCP Devin Dreshen UCP Ali Eltayeb Lac Ste. Anne- AP Don McCargar Edmonton-Riverview AP Katherine O’Neill Parkland NDP NDP UCP UCP Karamarie Barker Lacombe-Panoka AP Myles Chykerda Edmonton-Rutherford AP Aisha Rauf UCP NDP Leduc-Beaumont AP Robb Connelly UCP Hannah Presakarchuk NDP Edmonton-South AP Pramod Kumar UCP NDP -East NDP UCP Tunde Obasan UCP Bryan Litchfield Edmonton-South AP Kimberly Lyall West NDP John Archer UCP Lethbridge-West LIB Patricia Chizek Edmonton-Strathcona NDP Rachel Notley NDP UCP Jovita Mendita UCP Karri Flatla Edmonton-West AP Winston Leung Lesser NDP Henday LIB Leah McRorie UCP NDP Livingstone-Macleod AP Tim Meech UCP Nicole Williams LIB Dylin Hauser Edmonton-Whitemud AP Jonathan Dai UCP NDP Maskwacis- NDP Bruce Hinkley UCP Elizabeth Hughes Wetaskiwin UCP Richard Wilson Fort McMurray-Lac UCP La Biche

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Morinville-St. Albert AP Neil Korotash Wayne Rufiange ON THE AGENDA NDP Shawna Gawreluck January: Cabinet retreat (Calgary) UCP Olds-Didsbury-Three UCP Nathan Cooper January 20: Deadline to offer feedback on the Biodiversity Hills Stewardship Area Consultation. Peace River UCP Dan Williams January 24: Edmonton Chamber of Commerce: A Red Deer North AP Paul Hardy Conversation with Premier Rachel Notley. NDP February 2: Edmonton Chamber of Commerce Chamber UCP Adriana LaGrange Ball (Shaw Conference Centre, Edmonton). Red Deer South AP Ryan Mcdougall NDP February 4-5: Alberta & Saskatchewan Renewable Energy Finance Summit (Westin Hotel, Calgary) UCP Bruce Buruma Adele Poratto February 8: Deadline for submissions of expressions of interest to determine private sector interest in building or Norman Wiebe expanding a refinery in Alberta to use more Alberta heavy Rimbey-Rocky FCP oil. Mountain House- UCP February 22: NEB TMX review deadline. Sundre St. Albert NDP March 10-12: IPPSA Conference (Banff) UCP Jeff Wedman Sherwood Park AP Sue Timanson NDP Annie McKitrick UCP Jordan Walker Spruce Grove-Stony AP Ivan Boles Plain NDP Erin Babcock UCP Strathcona-Sherwood AP Park UCP Taber-Warner UCP Vermilion- UCP Garth Roswell Lloydminster- Wainwright AP Kirstie Gomuwka LIB Zack Seizmagraff NDP Eric Rosendahl UCP

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REPORT CONSULTATIONS • Budget 2019 consultations are open online until Feb. 10, 2019

• City Charters: Soliciting input on regulations to support Calgary and Edmonton. Open until January 28, 2019.

• Bighorn Country Proposal: Engaging Albertans on the parks, protected areas and land use in Bighorn Country. Open until Jan. 31, 2019.

• Fostering an inclusive Alberta: Soliciting input on the government’s next steps to combat racism. Ongoing.

• Caribou Range Planning: Albertans are invited to share feedback on the draft caribou range plan.

• Glenora building: Soliciting comments on future uses for the former Royal Alberta Museum building.

LOBBYIST REGISTRY UPDATES New West Public Affairs. Designated filer is Monte Solberg. New client is Calgary River Communities Action Group. Lobbying the Alberta Legislative Assembly to ensure support for continued work on Springbank Dry Reservoir and Bow River flood mitigation.

Longview Communications Inc. Designated filer is Hugh McFadyen. New client is Parkland Fuel Corporation. Lobbying various departments about securing an economic supply of oil feedstock to the company’s refining asset.

Sandie Price. Designated filer is Sandra Price. New client is Christenson Group of Companies. Lobbying Alberta Health, Alberta Legislative Assembly, Alberta Seniors and Housing to secure site based home care funding for Christenson Communities.

THE IMPACT REPORT a Global Public Affairs publication Editor: Brookes Merritt / Publisher: Elan MacDonald [email protected] / 780-425-1990 202, 10137 104 Street, Edmonton, AB T5J 0Z9

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