OUR FOCUS
Competitive & Sustainable Economy
Creating A Competitive & Innovative Business Environment for Generations
A competitive and sustainable economic future is about creating the right environment for business to flourish in the long term, generating a place of shared prosperity for all.
Alberta must be the most competitive, productive, adaptive, and resilient business environment anywhere in the world. We must be bold, creative, and a lab for innovation that has the potential to change the world. That is how Alberta can be a magnet in the global competition for talent, business, investment, attention, and be a leader in innovation, future resource development, and climate performance.
Key Priorities
Natural Resources, Climate Policy & ESG
Leading emissions reduction efforts and ESG performance, developing future energies and products, and enabling the technologies, investments, and partnerships to reduce our impact on the environment and improve our impact on the world.
Economic Diversification
Building on our economic strengths and developing emerging sectors to attract investment, create good jobs, and build prosperity for generations is the smart way to diversify and grow our economy.
Business Environment & Competitiveness
Innovating, removing complexity, and focusing on competitiveness in regulation, taxation, innovation, technology adoption, infrastructure, and government budgets and services to establish a highly attractive and desirable business environment.
Fiscal, Economic & Regulatory Policy
Being competitive requires long-term fiscal and economic stability, wise and efficient spending, smart and efficient taxation, managing volatility, appropriate regulation, and effective deficit and debt management.
Market Access & Infrastructure
Alberta is a trading jurisdiction. Unlocking market access to enable trade and improving the delivery of goods and services through a comprehensive network of physical and digital infrastructure is essential to prosperity.
Innovation & Technology Ecosystem
Creating the conditions, environment, and culture to enable the necessary capital, talent, customers, institutions, and appropriate regulation to be established is vital to being a global-leading innovation ecosystem.
Key Initiatives
- Clean Fuel Standard: Assessing the impact of the federal government’s proposed Clean Fuel Standard, how it will affect Alberta and Canada, and exploring options to improve the regulation.
- Alberta’s Government Revenue Mix: Studying Alberta’s current fiscal situation, from declining resource revenues to a widening fiscal gap, and exploring options for increasing revenue, decreasing volatility, and returning to fiscal sustainability.
Recent Work
PODCAST: Episode #52: C-Suite Unplugged: Trent Fequet, President & CEO, Steel River Group
It doesn’t take long to see Trent Fequet’s passion for people. Rooted in his own Indigenous worldview and driven by his core values, Trent took his passion for people and community and developed an innovative way of doing business around it—and, in 2017, Steel River...
Alberta’s Priorities for the Next Government of Canada
On September 20, 2021, Canadians will go to the polls to elect their next federal government. For Alberta, there are two main areas that need to be the focus of discussion in this election and must become key priorities for the next government. The first is short-term...
PODCAST: Episode #51: The Brief: Innovation in Canada with Jim Balsillie, former Chairman & Co-CEO of Research in Motion (Blackberry); Co-Founder & Chair of the Council of Canadian Innovators
“In the mid-late 1970s, intangibles was 17% of the S&P 500. Now, it is over 91% and climbing.” Over the past few decades, we’ve seen a new kind of economy emerge—one that has been borne out of and continue to be driven by innovation and digital transformation. As...
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