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Key to the province is Albertans themselves
Over the past century, Alberta’s natural resources have played a major role in our province’s economic success — and in the prosperity of Canadians across our great country.
While Alberta is fortunate to have resources like oil and gas, our stature as a leading energy producer and an economic force is based on the hard work and ingenuity of Albertans — like Hatters and others who call southeastern Alberta home.
These are traits that attract newcomers, drive investment, and elevate our quality of life in every corner of the province. They are what keep communities like Medicine Hat, and our province, growing.
And the Alberta government is focused on ensuring our natural resources continue to reap economic and social benefits for Albertans and for Canadians from coast to coast.
We are committed to maximizing the value of these resources by getting them to new markets overseas and supporting the production of higher value energy products here in Alberta.
As we continue to develop our resources, we must also continue to improve how we protect the environment. As the Premier has often said, if Alberta is in the energy business, we must also be in the environment business.
Alberta has some of the most stringent regulations and innovative monitoring programs to ensure our air, land, and water remain protected. But we must build on
the leadership that made us the first jurisdiction in North America to regulate industrial greenhouse gas emissions, and among the first to put a price on carbon. We will ensure that Alberta industry remains competitive, and we will meet the challenge of demonstrating real environmental leadership through meaningful action.
Despite any challenges it may face, our energy sector is tough, resilient and innovative. That is why it has grown steadily over the past century into the world-leading industry it is today.
Our government will work hard to support this industry and maintain a positive climate that encourages investment in Alberta’s natural resources and its people. We are training more apprentices, helping under-represented Albertans find work, and are continuing to work closely with First Nations and Metis communities to build economic partnerships founded on sound environmental principles and responsible development.
Alberta continues to be the best place in Canada to work, invest, and raise a family. We are truly blessed with a wealth of resources, but the real key to our prosperity is Albertans themselves — who create the conditions for their own success.
T TIM KALINOWSKI
ed Grimm took to the Medicine Hat mayor’s chair like he was born to it.
A great manager of day-to-day affairs, a steady presence at the helm during
times of crisis and a telegenic public personality, Grimm was the right man at the right time for Medicine Hat.
During Grimm’s record-breaking 24 years as mayor, Medicine Hat transitioned from a small, rural community of 27,000 to a modern,
70 2015 REPORT ON SOUTHEAST ALBERTA who changed
Medicine Hat The legacy of Ted Grimm
bustling metropolis of more than 60,000. It took skill, it took foresight and it took decisiveness to carry it off. Qualities Ted Grimm had in spades.
“There was a book I used to like called “The Man Who Changed the World,” former city manager and long-time colleague Larry Godin once said. “The book of Ted Grimm is maybe the “Man Who Changed Medicine Hat.”
Ted Grimm was born in 1936 to a devout Roman Catholic family on a farm near Fox Valley, Sask. From early on his parents encouraged his interest in politics and world affairs.
“I was born in the shadow of the Depression. So the influence of the Depression stayed with me and our people. So part of the fiscal approach I took as a mayor was part of that culture a bit,” confirmed Grimm in a 2014 interview with the Historical Society of Medicine Hat and District.
An avid reader, Grimm dreamed of one day becoming a teacher. He briefly attended college in Regina after graduating high school but was forced to drop out due to a lack of resources. Grimm then went to work at the highways department in Saskatchewan before moving to Medicine Hat in 1956 to work at the Northwest Nitro Chemicals plant. It was Grimm’s experience at Northwest Nitro Chemicals that kickstarted his political career.
“When I worked at the chemical plant there was a movement to establish a
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