three-day tour of Alberta on June 26<\/a>.<\/p>\nDuring the trip, LeBlanc met with trade, industry, business and municipal leaders in Fort McMurray, Red Deer and Edmonton.<\/p>\n
The federal government says the meetings focused on Alberta\u2019s economic importance, energy development, major projects, investment and efforts to reduce barriers to trade within Canada.<\/p>\n
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Energy partnership highlighted<\/p>\n
LeBlanc reaffirmed Ottawa\u2019s commitment to the implementation agreement tied to the Canada-Alberta memorandum of understanding.<\/p>\n
The federal government says the agreement is intended to help unlock Alberta\u2019s natural resources and support Canada\u2019s role in clean and conventional energy.<\/p>\n
LeBlanc said Alberta is central to Canada\u2019s economic future.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the largest carbon capture project in the world to nation-building pipelines and major projects that are already supporting tens of thousands of jobs, Albertans are proving that we can build big and build clean at the same time,\u201d LeBlanc said in a release.<\/p>\n
Major projects discussed<\/p>\n
The minister also pointed to federal efforts to advance major projects and create more certainty for investors.<\/p>\n
That includes the creation of the Major Projects Office, which Ottawa says is meant to support a more efficient regulatory process.<\/p>\n
The federal government says the office is advancing 23 nation-building projects and strategies, representing more than $135 billion in new investment and supporting more than 155,000 jobs.<\/p>\n
LeBlanc also highlighted the recent Canada-Alberta co-operation agreement on environmental and impact assessment, which is intended to support a \u201cone project, one review\u201d approach.<\/p>\n
Trade barriers also raised<\/p>\n
During the Alberta visit, LeBlanc met with three chambers of commerce to discuss efforts to remove barriers to interprovincial trade and labour mobility.<\/p>\n
The federal government says that work includes reducing red tape and improving the movement of goods, services and skilled workers across Canada.<\/p>\n
LeBlanc also emphasized the importance of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement in maintaining a stable trading relationship with the United States and Mexico.<\/p>\n
Ottawa says preserving an integrated North American market remains important for export-focused sectors, including energy, manufacturing and agriculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The federal government says Alberta will play a central role in strengthening Canada\u2019s economy as Ottawa looks to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-795051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}