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Hon. Myles McDougall

Ministerial role: Advanced Education
Calgary-Fish Creek

Responsibilities

  • Approving programs of study
  • Funding public post-secondary institutions and other adult learning providers
  • Providing financial aid for learners
  • Registering and certifying apprentices
  • Supporting academic research and innovation

Current Events / Issues

  • Attracting and retaining international nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and combined laboratory and x-ray technologists
  • Creating more rural work-integrated learning opportunities such as placements and practicums
  • Increased tuition and affordability for rural students
  • Encouraging rural-focused medical and veterinary students

Hon. RJ Sigurdson

Ministerial role: Affordability and Utilities
Highwood

Responsibilities

  • Leads and coordinates government’s ongoing efforts to make everyday life more affordable
  • Manages and develops policy for the development of the province’s utilities sector
  • Oversees a reliable and affordable electrical grid system
  • Nuclear energy stakeholder engagement

Current Events / Issues

  • Renewable energy project approvals and reclamation
  • AI data centres and “bring your own power” generation projects
  • Oversight of Alberta Utilities Commission
  • Nuclear energy in Alberta
  • Alberta’s electrical transmission network and transmission policy
  • High distribution and other charges on utility bills
  • Advocacy regarding the federal Clean Electricity Regulation

Hon. Tara Sawyer

Ministerial role: Agriculture and Irrigation
Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills

Responsibilities

  • Policies, legislation, regulations and services necessary for Alberta’s agriculture and food sectors to grow, prosper and diversify
  • Inspiring public confidence in the quality and safety of food
  • Supporting environmentally sustainable resource management practices

Current Events / Issues

  • Value-added agriculture
  • Diversify and expand domestic and international market opportunities
  • Irrigation modernization and water storage infrastructure
  • Protect agricultural land and soil health
  • Trade and Tariff Mitigation
  • Alberta Agriculture Plastics Recycling Program
  • Weeds on wellsites
  • Strychnine

Hon. Searle Turton

Ministerial role: Children and Family Services
Spruce Grove-Stony Plain

Responsibilities

  • Supports for children, youth, and families
  • Provides tools for families across Alberta

Current Events / Issues

  • Family Resource Networks
  • Alberta Child and Family Benefit

Hon. Tanya Fir

Ministerial role: Arts, Culture and Status of Women
Calgary-Peigan

Responsibilities

  • Build a vibrant cultural sector
  • Support the development and sustainability of Alberta’s creative and cultural industries, artists and arts community, recreation and sport and non-profit / voluntary sector
  • Work with ministries to make sure gender and other identity factors are reflected in Alberta government policies, programs and legislation

Current Events / Issues

  • Family and Community Support Services (FCSS)
  • Role supporting Agritourism as part of the cultural sector
  • Historical Resources Act approvals
  • Community Facility Enhancement Program
  • Funding community building projects
  • Supporting Francophone communities

Hon. Demetrios Nicolaides

Ministerial role: Education and Childcare
Calgary-Bow

Responsibilities

  • Develop and evaluate curriculum and set standards
  • Teacher development and certification
  • Support students with diverse needs
  • Fund and support school boards
  • First Nation, Metis and Francophone education
  • Oversees basic education policy and regulations

Current Events / Issues

  • New school planning and construction
  • New charter school hub
  • New funding for bussing
  • Sustainability of rural schools
  • Fast track certification for teachers to support rural hiring
  • Marketing campaign for in-demand trades jobs, often in shortage in rural areas

Hon. Brian Jean

Ministerial role: Energy and Minerals
Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche

Responsibilities

  • Manage and develop policy for the development of the province’s energy and mineral resources
  • Grant industry the right to explore for and develop energy and mineral resources
  • Establish, administer and monitor the effectiveness of fiscal and royalty systems
  • Encourage additional investment that creates jobs and economic prosperity
  • Advocate for greater market access

Current Events / Issues

  • Mature Asset Strategy
  • Enforcement of unpaid oil and gas property taxes
  • Use of hydrogen for alternative energy
  • Expedited major project approvals
  • Liability management of oil and gas industry
  • Carbon Capture Incentive Program (ACCIP)
  • Coal Industry Modernization Initiative

Hon. Grant Hunter

Ministerial role: Environment and Protected Areas
Calgary-Shaw

Responsibilities

  • Protect and enhance Alberta’s environment and ecosystems to ensure a sustainable future, making life better for Albertans
  • Work with Albertans, Indigenous communities and stakeholders to ensure the province’s environmental, social, and economic outcomes for the future are met
  • Engages Albertans to understand the challenges in ensuring Alberta’s natural resources are managed using innovative and responsible approaches

Current Events / Issues

  • Drought and flood preparation and recovery
  • Oil sands mine water management and tailings pond reclamation
  • Implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
  • Implementation of Water Act amendments
  • Accelerate Land-Use Plan development and completion
  • Support irrigation modernization
  • Support development of an integrated water program for non-residential infrastructure
  • Provincial aggregate pit registrations

Hon. Todd Loewen

Ministerial role: Forestry and Parks
Central Peace-Notley

Responsibilities

  • Grow wood products and forestry sector
  • Protect forests from wildfire
  • Preserve and manage access to public lands and provincial parks
  • Support tourism and outdoor recreation
  • Balance sustainable rangelands and grazing leases for producers

Current Events / Issues

  • Comprehensive wildfire mitigation strategy that enhances community safety, forest health, education and awareness, and climate resilience across Alberta
  • Secure federal agreement for management of wildfire across all federal lands
  • Expand and improve inventory of campsites, trails and other public use opportunities
  • Value-added forestry products tax incentive program
  • Support the sustainability of the forestry sector
  • Movement of forestry products by rail

Hon. Adriana LaGrange

Ministerial role: Hospital and Surgical Health Services
Red Deer-North

Responsibilities

  • Timely access to surgeries and hospital-based care
  • Oversee operation of hospitals
  • Improve hospital efficiency

Current Events / Issues

  • EMS service delivery
  • Emergency room closures
  • Utilization of rural surgical facilities
  • Rural hospital funding under a use-based model
  • Decrease hospital waiting times
  • Alberta EMS Provincial Advisory Committee (AEPAC) recommendations and implementation status

Hon. Justin Wright

Ministerial role: Primary and Preventative Health Services
Cypress-Medicine Hat

Responsibilities

  • Setting policy, legislation and standards for health system in Alberta
  • Allocating health funding
  • Administering provincial programs such as Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan
  • Implementing and ensuring compliance with government policy

Current Events / Issues

  • Restructuring of healthcare delivery
  • Implementation of the Rural Health Action Plan
  • Recruitment and retention of health care workers
  • Increasing access to health professionals

Hon. Rajan Sawhney

Ministerial role: Indigenous Relations
Calgary-North East

Responsibilities

  • Promoting social and economic opportunities for Indigenous Peoples
  • Co-leading Indigenous training for all Alberta public servants
  • Working with other ministries to develop opportunities for Indigenous Peoples to influence land and resource management decisions

Current Events / Issues

  • Support municipalities in their work to pursue reconciliation
  • Indigenous consultations in Alberta

Hon. Martin Long

Ministerial role: Infrastructure
West Yellowhead

Responsibilities

  • Delivering the capital plan to address infrastructure needs
  • Designs, builds, manages, and maintains government owned and operated facilities
  • Manages portfolio of owned and leased facilities

Current Events / Issues

  • Supporting transportation and utility corridors
  • Liaising with federal government for development of next generation federal infrastructure funding programs
  • Real Property Governance Act framework
  • Capital funding formula and capital planning process for health and social infrastructure
  • Improving provincial procurement processes for construction services

Hon. Joseph Schow

Ministerial role: Jobs, Economy, Trade and Immigration
Carston-Siksika

Responsibilities

  • Supporting Alberta entrepreneurs, businesses and communities to drive growth and job creations
  • Attracting, retaining and expanding investment in Alberta
  • Establishing and enforcing Albert’s employment standards and laws governing health and safety of Alberta’s workplaces
  • Optimizing Alberta’s innovation system to support economic growth
  • Creating the conditions for growth and diversification of Alberta’s primary and emerging industries
  • Responsible for supporting multicultural communities
  • Attracting skilled workers
  • Leading international trade and investment

Current Events / Issues

  • Rural economic development, business and workforce support
  • Attracting investment and promoting Alberta as a tourist destination
  • Supporting Agritourism opportunities
  • Fairness for Newcomers office to help remove barriers for newcomers
  • Occupational Health and Safety

Hon. Mickey Amery

Ministerial role: Justice
Calgary-Cross

Responsibilities

  • Represent other ministries in court / tribunals
  • Providing legal representation for those in need
  • Lead a fair and innovative justice system

Current Events / Issues

  • Attracting prosecutors to rural areas
  • Reforming the bail system
  • Ensuring confidence in the justice system

Hon. Rick Wilson

Ministerial role: Mental Health and Addiction
Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin

Responsibilities

  • Implementing a comprehensive recovery-oriented system of care
  • Increasing access to evidence-based services and supports
  • Funding community-based programs and services
  • Licensing addiction and mental health service providers
  • Ensuring mental health and addiction services are safe and high quality

Current Events / Issues

  • Access to mental health and addictions support in rural areas
  • Access to agriculture-specific mental health supports
  • Implementation of Recovery Alberta
  • Oversight Minister for Mental Health and Addiction
  • Regulation of Counselling Therapy profession
  • Collaboration on rural homelessness

Hon. Dan Williams

Ministerial role: Municipal Affairs
Peace River

Responsibilities

  • Municipal governance and oversight
  • Funding supports for municipalities
  • Municipal property assessment
  • Land and Property Rights Tribunal
  • New home warranty
  • Safety Codes Act

Current Events / Issues

  • Assessment model review
  • Addressing unpaid municipal property taxes from oil and gas operations
  • Municipal infrastructure deficit
  • Minister’s Council on Alternative Municipal Financing Tools
  • “Automatic Yes” and automated permitting frameworks
  • Municipal viability
  • Intermunicipal collaboration frameworks
  • Councillor Accountability Framework implementation
  • Bill 28 implementation

Hon. Mike Ellis

Ministerial role: Public Safety and Emergency Services
Calgary-West

Responsibilities

  • Crime prevention and public safety
  • Custody and supervision of correctional facilities
  • Emergency and disaster preparation, mitigation, response and recovery
  • Policing and police oversight

Current Events / Issues

  • Police Act amendments and implementation of Provincial Police Advisory Board
  • Change in scope and powers of Sheriffs/Independent Police Agency
  • Implementation of the Alberta Sheriffs Police Service
  • Emergency preparedness/response, such as wildfire and flood
  • Minister responsible for Alberta Emergency Management Agency
  • Municipal/regional policing grant
  • Alberta Provincial Police Service feasibility study
  • Police funding model
  • Crime prevention in rural areas

Hon. Nathan Neudorf

Ministerial role: Assisted Living and Social Services
Lethbridge-East

Responsibilities

  • Delivery of services for seniors
  • Services to support those with disabilities
  • Affordable housing and homelessness support
  • Continuing Care

Current Events / Issues

  • Seniors’ financial assistance programs
  • ADAP (formerly AISH)
  • Affordable housing
  • Continuing care homes
  • Community Hospice Society funding

Hon. Andrew Boitchenko

Ministerial role: Tourism & Sport
Drayton Valley-Devon

Responsibilities

  • Create long-term provincial tourism strategy
  • International games bidding
  • Lead promotional activities

Current Events / Issues

  • Agritourism
  • Enabling access to parks for tourism
  • Costs incurred by municipalities to provide services to users of neighbouring provincial parks
  • Community recreation centers
  • All Seasons Resort Act

Hon. Dale Nally

Ministerial role: Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction
St. Albert-Morinville

Responsibilities

  • Support Alberta’s regulatory framework and service delivery systems to ensure strong consumer protection
  • Lead the modernization and oversight of Alberta’s registry systems, including land titles, driver licensing, and provincial identification
  • Reducing unnecessary regulatory burdens through targeted red tape reduction initiatives across government ministries
  • Lead service innovation and drive digital transformation to make government interactions simpler and more accessible for individuals and businesses

Current Events / Issues

  • Access to Information Act (ATIA) and Protection of Privacy Act (POPA)
  • Transition to digital regulatory assurance system to streamline environmental approvals
  • Digital Identity and Registry Modernization
  • Automatic Yes policy framework
  • AI and automation to enhance to improve call centres

Hon. Nate Glubish

Ministerial role: Technology and Innovation
Strathcona-Sherwood Park

Responsibilities

  • Broadband
  • Government of Alberta’s technology infrastructure to support economic diversification
  • AI data centre attraction strategy
  • Provincial digital strategy
  • Attracting investment in Alberta’s technology and innovation ecosystem

Current Events / Issues

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Data Centers
  • Rural broadband, including advocating for enhanced federal broadband funding support
  • Rural cell phone coverage
  • Alberta Broadband Fund/Strategy
  • Protection of Privacy Act
  • Data-sharing

Hon. Devin Dreeshen

Ministerial role: Transportation and Economic Corridors
Innisfail-Sylvan Lake

Responsibilities

  • Managing transportation safety
  • Supporting municipalities with public infrastructure and water / wastewater facilities
  • Expanding and enhancing a well-integrated transportation system and enabling market access
  • Partner with rural municipalities to expand water, bridge and local road infrastructure

Current Events / Issues

  • Strategic Transportation Infrastructure Program (STIP)
  • Water and wastewater grants
  • Transportation policies and technical guidelines
  • Passenger Rail Strategy
  • Provincial construction program
  • Municipal role in supporting economic corridor development

Hon. Jason Nixon

Ministerial role: Treasury Board and Finance
Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre

Responsibilities

  • Accountability
  • Financial management
  • Human resources
  • Regulation of Alberta’s financial, securities, insurance and pensions sectors
  • Administers regulated funds, provincial agencies and Crown-controlled corporations

Current Events / Issues

  • 2027 Provincial Budget and fiscal framework
  • Economic outlook and analysis
  • Impacts of global trade/tariff developments
  • Heritage Fund growth and long-term fiscal sustainability
  • Government-wide review of grant programs to assess necessity, efficiency, and alignment with government objectives, with recommendations for 50% matching requirements or elimination