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Matt Jones, Alberta’s Minister of Jobs, Economy and Trade, will look at developing new investment tax credits according to his mandate letter from the Premier. Jones will also be tasked with implementing the campaign promise to provide a bonus for workers in high-demand jobs like health care, child care, and the certified trades, who come to Alberta.
Alberta’s Transport Minister, Devin Dreeshen, continues to call on the federal government to recall parliament and use back-to-work legislation to end the strike at the Port of Vancouver. Alberta has asked federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan for daily updates on negotiations between the Port workers union and their employer. More than 7,000 workers at 30 ports across British Columbia are on strike, stalling shipments out of Alberta and costing exporters millions of dollars per day. Ottawa used back-to-work legislation to end a strike at the Port of Montreal after just one day in 2021.
