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Hon. Rajan Sawhney

Ministerial role: Advanced Education
Calgary north

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. Nathan Neudorf

Ministerial role: Affordability and Utilities
Lethbridge-East

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
  • Leads farm fuel and rural utility programs
  • Oversees a reliable and affordable electricity system for Albertans

Current Events / Issues

  • Renewable energy project approvals and reclamation
  • Oversight of Alberta Utilities Commission
  • High distribution charges on utility bills
  • Alberta’s transmission network

Hon. RJ Sigurdson

Ministerial role: Agriculture and Irrigation
Highwood

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

  • Protection of agricultural land
  • Drought mitigation and response
  • Value added agriculture
  • Alberta Agriculture Plastics Recycling Program
  • Weeds on wellsites

Hon. Brian Jean

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

Responsibilities

  • Manages and develops policy for the development of the province’s resources
  • Grants industry the right to explore for and develop energy and mineral resources
  • Establishes, administers, and monitors the effectiveness of fiscal and royalty systems
  • Encourages additional investment that creates jobs and economic prosperity

Current Events / Issues

  • Mature Asset Strategy
  • Enforcement of unpaid oil and gas property taxes
  • Use of hydrogen for alternative energy
  • Liability management of oil and gas industry

Hon. Rebecca Schulz

Ministerial role: Environment and Protected Areas
Calgary-Shaw

Responsibilities

  • Works to 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 preparation and management
  • Managing landscape for conservation and economic development
  • Climate change action planning
  • Implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
  • Water Act approvals

Hon. Todd Loewen

Ministerial role: Forestry and Parks
Central Peace-Notley

Responsibilities

  • Support wood products and forestry sector
  • Preserving and managing public lands and provincial parks
  • Support tourism and outdoor recreation

Current Events / Issues

  • Wildfire planning and response
  • Wildfires inside of the FPA
  • Support the sustainability of the forestry sector
  • Movement of forestry products by rail
  • Enabling access to parks for tourism

Hon. Adriana LaGrange

Ministerial role: Health
Red Deer-North

Responsibilities

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

Current Events / Issues

  • Restructuring of healthcare delivery
  • Acute Care Oversight Minister
  • Implementation of the Rural Health Action Plan
  • EMS service delivery
  • Increasing access to health professionals
  • Air ambulance landing site review
  • Alberta EMS Provincial Advisory Committee (AEPAC) recommendations and implementation status
  • AHS Governance and Procurement Review

Hon. Rick Wilson

Ministerial role: Indigenous Relations
Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin

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
  • Infrastructure deficit

Hon. Matt Jones

Ministerial role: Jobs, Economy, and Trade
Calgary-South East

Responsibilities

  • Supporting Alberta entrepreneurs, businesses, and communities to drive growth and job creations
  • Attracting, retaining, and expanding investment in Alberta
  • Establishing and enforcing Alberta’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

Current Events / Issues

  • Funding for Regional Economic Development Alliances
  • Rural economic development, business and workforce support
  • Attracting investment and promoting Alberta as a tourist destination
  • Fairness for Newcomers office to help remove barriers for newcomers
  • Affordable childcare

Hon. Mickey Amery

Ministerial role: Justice
Calgary-Cross

Responsibilities

  • Represent other ministries in court / tribunals
  • Providing legal advice to 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. Dan Williams

Ministerial role: Mental Health and Addiction
Peace River

Responsibilities

  • 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

Current Events / Issues

  • Access to mental health and addictions support in rural areas
  • Access to agriculture-specific mental health supports
  • Implementation of Recovery Alberta

Hon. Ric McIver

Ministerial role: Municipal Affairs
Calgary-Hays

Responsibilities

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

Current Events / Issues

  • Enforcing unpaid property taxes from oil and gas operations
  • Property tax holidays and incentives for oil and gas industry
  • LGFF allocation formula
  • Infrastructure deficit
  • Assessment model review
  • Local Authorities Election Act
  • Intermunicipal collaboration frameworks
  • Growth management boards
  • Codes of conduct and municipal governance
  • Police Funding Model
  • Support for Rural Volunteer Fire Fighters and Departments

Hon. Mike Ellis

Ministerial role: Public Safety and Emergency Services
Calgary-West

Responsibilities

  • Crime prevention and public safety
  • Alberta Emergency Management Agency
  • Policing and police oversight

Current Events / Issues

  • Victim service regionalization
  • Police Act amendments and implementation of Provincial Police Advisory Board
  • Change in scope and powers of Sheriffs/Independent Police Agency
  • Community Peace Officer well-being and supports
  • Emergency preparedness/response
  • Applications for the Disaster Recovery Program (DRP)
  • Wildfire recovery, response, and preparation
  • Municipal/regional policing grant
  • Alberta Provincial Police Service feasibility study
  • Police funding model
  • Police retention in rural area
  • Crime prevention in rural areas

Hon. Jason Nixon

Ministerial role: Seniors, Community, and Social Services
Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre

Responsibilities

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

Current Events / Issues

  • FCSS funding
  • Seniors’ financial assistance programs
  • AISH
  • Affordable housing
  • Continuing Care healthcare pillar
  • Community Hospice Society funding

Hon. Joseph Schow

Ministerial role: Tourism and Sport
Carston-Siksika

Responsibilities

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

Current Events / Issues

  • Agri-tourism
  • Enabling access to parks for tourism
  • Costs incurred by municipalities to provide services to users of neighbouring provincial parks
  • Community recreation centres

Hon. Dale Nally

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

Responsibilities

  • Protecting consumers
  • Overseeing registry activities
  • Cutting red tape
  • Make life easier for individuals and businesses

Current Events / Issues

  • Charitable gaming model
  • FOIP/POPA
  • Simplifying the Water Act and other environmental approvals for municipalities
  • Simplifying and harmonizing quasi-judicial agency approval processes

Hon. Nate Glubish

Ministerial role: Technology and Innovation
Strathcona-Sherwood Park

Responsibilities

  • Broadband
  • Government of Alberta’s technology infrastructure to support economic diversification

Current Events / Issues

  • Rural broadband
  • Alberta Broadband Fund
  • Advocating for enhanced federal broadband funding support in rural Alberta
  • FOIP/POPA
  • Data-sharing
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Data Centers

Hon. Muhammad Yaseen

Ministerial role: Immigration and Multiculturalism
Calgary-North

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for supporting multicultural communities
  • Attracting skilled workers
  • Leading international trade and investment

Current Events / Issues

  • Rural immigration strategy
  • Market access and trade and investment
  • Internationally educated healthcare workers

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

Current Events / Issues

  • Strategic Transportation Infrastructure Program
  • Water and wastewater grants
  • Transportation policies and technical guidelines
  • Provincial construction program
  • Municipal role in supporting economic corridor development
  • Interprovincial economic collaboration around threat of tariffs from the United States

Hon. Rajan Sawhney

Ministerial role: Advanced Education
Calgary north

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. Nathan Neudorf

Ministerial role: Affordability and Utilities
Lethbridge-East

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
  • Leads farm fuel and rural utility programs
  • Oversees a reliable and affordable electricity system for Albertans

Current Events / Issues

  • Renewable energy project approvals and reclamation
  • Oversight of Alberta Utilities Commission
  • High distribution charges on utility bills
  • Alberta’s transmission network

Hon. RJ Sigurdson

Ministerial role: Agriculture and Irrigation
Highwood

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

  • Protection of agricultural land
  • Drought mitigation and response
  • Value added agriculture
  • Alberta Agriculture Plastics Recycling Program
  • Weeds on wellsites

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

  • Historical Resources Act approvals
  • Community Facility Enhancement Program
  • Funding community building projects
  • Supporting Francophone communities

Hon. Demetrios Nicolaides

Ministerial role: Education
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

Current Events / Issues

  • New school planning and construction
  • New charter school hub
  • New funding for bussing
  • Sustainability of rural schools

Hon. Brian Jean

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

Responsibilities

  • Manages and develops policy for the development of the province’s resources
  • Grants industry the right to explore for and develop energy and mineral resources
  • Establishes, administers, and monitors the effectiveness of fiscal and royalty systems
  • Encourages additional investment that creates jobs and economic prosperity

Current Events / Issues

  • Mature Asset Strategy
  • Enforcement of unpaid oil and gas property taxes
  • Use of hydrogen for alternative energy
  • Liability management of oil and gas industry

Hon. Rebecca Schulz

Ministerial role: Environment and Protected Areas
Calgary-Shaw

Responsibilities

  • Works to 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 preparation and management
  • Managing landscape for conservation and economic development
  • Climate change action planning
  • Implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
  • Water Act approvals

Hon. Todd Loewen

Ministerial role: Forestry and Parks
Central Peace-Notley

Responsibilities

  • Support wood products and forestry sector
  • Preserving and managing public lands and provincial parks
  • Support tourism and outdoor recreation

Current Events / Issues

  • Wildfire planning and response
  • Wildfires inside of the FPA
  • Support the sustainability of the forestry sector
  • Movement of forestry products by rail
  • Enabling access to parks for tourism

Hon. Adriana LaGrange

Ministerial role: Health
Red Deer-North

Responsibilities

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

Current Events / Issues

  • Restructuring of healthcare delivery
  • Acute Care Oversight Minister
  • Implementation of the Rural Health Action Plan
  • EMS service delivery
  • Increasing access to health professionals
  • Air ambulance landing site review
  • Alberta EMS Provincial Advisory Committee (AEPAC) recommendations and implementation status
  • AHS Governance and Procurement Review

Hon. Rick Wilson

Ministerial role: Indigenous Relations
Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin

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
  • Infrastructure deficit

Hon. Matt Jones

Ministerial role: Jobs, Economy, and Trade
Calgary-South East

Responsibilities

  • Supporting Alberta entrepreneurs, businesses, and communities to drive growth and job creations
  • Attracting, retaining, and expanding investment in Alberta
  • Establishing and enforcing Alberta’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

Current Events / Issues

  • Funding for Regional Economic Development Alliances
  • Rural economic development, business and workforce support
  • Attracting investment and promoting Alberta as a tourist destination
  • Fairness for Newcomers office to help remove barriers for newcomers
  • Affordable childcare

Hon. Mickey Amery

Ministerial role: Justice
Calgary-Cross

Responsibilities

  • Represent other ministries in court / tribunals
  • Providing legal advice to 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. Dan Williams

Ministerial role: Mental Health and Addiction
Peace River

Responsibilities

  • 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

Current Events / Issues

  • Access to mental health and addictions support in rural areas
  • Access to agriculture-specific mental health supports
  • Implementation of Recovery Alberta

Hon. Ric McIver

Ministerial role: Municipal Affairs
Calgary-Hays

Responsibilities

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

Current Events / Issues

  • Enforcing unpaid property taxes from oil and gas operations
  • Property tax holidays and incentives for oil and gas industry
  • LGFF allocation formula
  • Infrastructure deficit
  • Assessment model review
  • Local Authorities Election Act
  • Intermunicipal collaboration frameworks
  • Growth management boards
  • Codes of conduct and municipal governance
  • Police Funding Model
  • Support for Rural Volunteer Fire Fighters and Departments

Hon. Mike Ellis

Ministerial role: Public Safety and Emergency Services
Calgary-West

Responsibilities

  • Crime prevention and public safety
  • Alberta Emergency Management Agency
  • Policing and police oversight

Current Events / Issues

  • Victim service regionalization
  • Police Act amendments and implementation of Provincial Police Advisory Board
  • Change in scope and powers of Sheriffs/Independent Police Agency
  • Community Peace Officer well-being and supports
  • Emergency preparedness/response
  • Applications for the Disaster Recovery Program (DRP)
  • Wildfire recovery, response, and preparation
  • Municipal/regional policing grant
  • Alberta Provincial Police Service feasibility study
  • Police funding model
  • Police retention in rural area
  • Crime prevention in rural areas

Hon. Jason Nixon

Ministerial role: Seniors, Community, and Social Services
Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre

Responsibilities

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

Current Events / Issues

  • FCSS funding
  • Seniors’ financial assistance programs
  • AISH
  • Affordable housing
  • Continuing Care healthcare pillar
  • Community Hospice Society funding

Hon. Joseph Schow

Ministerial role: Tourism and Sport
Carston-Siksika

Responsibilities

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

Current Events / Issues

  • Agri-tourism
  • Enabling access to parks for tourism
  • Costs incurred by municipalities to provide services to users of neighbouring provincial parks
  • Community recreation centres

Hon. Dale Nally

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

Responsibilities

  • Protecting consumers
  • Overseeing registry activities
  • Cutting red tape
  • Make life easier for individuals and businesses

Current Events / Issues

  • Charitable gaming model
  • FOIP/POPA
  • Simplifying the Water Act and other environmental approvals for municipalities
  • Simplifying and harmonizing quasi-judicial agency approval processes

Hon. Nate Glubish

Ministerial role: Technology and Innovation
Strathcona-Sherwood Park

Responsibilities

  • Broadband
  • Government of Alberta’s technology infrastructure to support economic diversification

Current Events / Issues

  • Rural broadband
  • Alberta Broadband Fund
  • Advocating for enhanced federal broadband funding support in rural Alberta
  • FOIP/POPA
  • Data-sharing
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Data Centers

Hon. Muhammad Yaseen

Ministerial role: Immigration and Multiculturalism
Calgary-North

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for supporting multicultural communities
  • Attracting skilled workers
  • Leading international trade and investment

Current Events / Issues

  • Rural immigration strategy
  • Market access and trade and investment
  • Internationally educated healthcare workers

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

Current Events / Issues

  • Strategic Transportation Infrastructure Program
  • Water and wastewater grants
  • Transportation policies and technical guidelines
  • Provincial construction program
  • Municipal role in supporting economic corridor development
  • Interprovincial economic collaboration around threat of tariffs from the United States

Hon. Nate Horner

Ministerial role: Treasury Board and Finance
Drumheller-Stettler

Responsibilities

  • Accountability
  • Financial management
  • Human resources and communications leadership
  • Regulation of AGLC, financial, securities, insurance, and pensions sector

Current Events / Issues

  • 2025 provincial budget
  • Economic outlook and analysis
  • Questions around threat of tariffs from the United States
  • Tax credits for volunteer fire fighters and search and rescue