Business / Real Estate Partner at Stringam Law in Medicine Hat and Brooks Alberta. Interests: business, development, politics, real estate, outdoors.
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Matthew Lofgren retweeted
Alberta's aviation industry is taking off.
De Havilland is adding a second production line for its new water bombers at its plant in Wheatland County, just east of Calgary, bringing about 1,200 jobs with it. These are the planes that will fight wildfires around the world, including five built right here for Alberta.
Add in WestJet, Lufthansa Technik and CAE all expanding in Calgary, and it's clear the world sees what we already know. Alberta is the place to build, fly and maintain the aircraft of the future.
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
We're lowering and freezing provincial education property tax rates across Alberta.
The new rates will standardize and freeze provincial education property tax rates for three years. These changes will help municipalities budget with confidence and give Albertans greater certainty when planning for the years ahead.
Through Budget 2027, we're making changes that will:
✅ Deliver savings: an estimated $98.7 million in savings for Alberta property owners in 2027-28.
✅ Improve fairness: Apply consistent provincial education property tax rates across municipalities.
✅ Provide certainty: Give municipalities a predictable provincial tax rate to plan around when making decisions for their communities.
✅ Protect Albertans: Introduce a one-time transition tax credit in 2027 for property owners in communities where the new provincial rates would otherwise be higher.
No matter where Albertans live, they should be able to count on a fair, consistent and predictable approach to education property taxes.
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
Strathcona Resources is proposing to ship up to 250,000 barrels of Canadian oil a day by rail to Prince Rupert and then on to overseas markets.
Only one thing stands in the way: Mark Carney's tanker ban.
Let’s create more 🇨🇦 jobs, get better prices for our resources, and be less dependent on the U.S. by voting YES to Conservative MP @DMcKenzieCPC's bill on Wednesday to scrap the tanker ban and put Canada first.
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
B.C.’s premier-designate says supporting new pipeline is first order of business ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article…
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
Albertans picked up a pencil yesterday and answered ten hard questions about our future.
That is democracy at its finest and tonight we talk about what comes next.
Join me live on CTV, Global, CityNews, Facebook, X or YouTube at 6:45pm— as we go through the referendum results, what they mean for this province, and what comes next.
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
The results are in, and one thing is for certain: last night was a very good night for Danielle Smith.
Of the ten referendum questions posed to Albertans last night, Danielle Smith's endorsed option won nine of them.
That includes:
-Reducing immigration
-Requiring an ID to vote
-Electing judges
-Abolishing the unelected Senate
And many more important changes!
What do you make of the results?
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
Why do Canadian seniors get pension splitting
and families with children CANNOT income split?
They dont even have to drive to work, pay into CPP or EI..... and they have ZERO dependents.
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
I live next door to British Columbia. Here we always say that B.C. stands for 'Bring Cash".
It's one of the most expensive provinces in the country, and it's going to get worse if its citizens re-elect David Eby.
Context: This would raise BC to the highest income tax rate since 1981, and make the province (by a decent margin) the highest tax rate jurisdiction in Canada. The gap with Alberta would be back at 1990s levels.
Data: financesofthenation.ca/statu…
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
This is going to be an unpopular take for Americans but… Trump’s tariffs got Carney elected. Canada was going to vote in @PierrePoilievre and he was going to win. He’s someone Trump could have worked with. And he could’ve fixed up Canada.
Losing Canada to Carney vs. Poilievre is seemingly making the US lose its Northern border to China and Europe. Which seems like a very bad idea. People are cheering about the US and its deals with Greenland, but what about the giant northern border that’s lost?
When Trump tried to negotiate with Carney more recently, Carney actually wanted to work with him, but when he brought the deal back to the Premiers in Canada (head of the provinces), they said no, they’d make his life miserable if he worked with Trump, and Carney catered to them. Which was a huge mistake Poilievre wouldn’t have made.
The Premiers (other than Saskatchewan and Alberta) like keeping Trump as the bad guy because their provinces are suffering so badly it’s easier to blame him than themselves.
Anyway. I was really excited for Poilievre to win and turn the country around and Trump hurt Canadians with tariffs, right before an election and got Carney elected. Whether people like to admit it or not, that’s what happened.
I don’t get why tariffs had to happen then. He could’ve implemented tariffs after Poilievre won. And then he’d have an ally as his northern border… people like to laugh at Canada and it does have no population compared to the US but it is the northern border and that seems to be overlooked.
Canada isn’t Mexico. It never has been. It was an ally.
I’m sure this’ll be unpopular but I don’t get it. If someone has an explanation for my that was a good idea, let me know because genuinely I don’t understand it.
We were so close to having a conservative leader. Canada could be blossoming. Trump could’ve had his tariffs a bit later (or not because Poilievre would’ve worked with him). And the northern border wouldn’t be negotiating with the EU.
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
Pourquoi le Canada ne peut-il pas libérer du pétrole et du diesel provenant de sa réserve stratégique? Tout simplement parce que nous sommes le seul pays du G7 à ne pas avoir une telle réserve stratégique de pétrole.
Notre plan conservateur vient remédier à la situation. Il faut créer une réserve stratégique pour faire profiter l'économie canadienne, renforcer notre dollar, faire baisser les prix à la pompe et renforcer notre autonomie : conservateur.ca/cpc/un-plan-…
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
Alberta’s Pacific Link pipeline is officially a project of national interest. This means the permitting process is fast tracked and we can reach our goal to get final construction permits approved by September of next year!
One million barrels a day from Alberta to the west coast, and from there to the Asia Pacific and beyond. This means greater energy sovereignty for Canada and a better price for every barrel that leaves this province.
That is more than $20 billion a year added to Canada's economy and up to 140,000 jobs in Alberta, British Columbia and across the country.
Here is what it means at your kitchen table. Stronger paycheques. Tens of billions in new revenue for the hospitals, schools and roads Albertans use every day.
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
We tend to focus on the value of LNG terminals. There are two ends of the pipe. Per @OilGasCanada, of the $241 billion in total economic value expected to be generated by Canadian LNG projects, nearly 75% (approx. $178 billion) will come from upstream capital and operating expenditures. To supply these facilities, Canada will draw from the world-class Montney formation.
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
South Bow is all but committed to building the US$2.1-billion Prairie Connector pipeline, and boosting Alberta oil exports to the United States, after the federal government introduced tax breaks and showcased the project at last week’s investment summit.
In May, South Bow announced it had binding 20-year customer commitments for 465,000 barrels of oil a day on the planned pipeline. Capacity is expected to eventually reach one million barrels a day.
theglobeandmail.com/business…
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
Shell and partners are poised to make the financial commitment to double the capacity of LNG Canada as early as next week
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
Canada's population growth rate slows to lowest level in 80 years financialpost.com/news/econo…
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
Today's federal announcement makes Canada a more competitive place to invest. That is welcome and overdue.
Canada's tax rate on new business investment now sits at 6.4 per cent. The American rate is 16.9 per cent. That is a real shift and it moves the case for building in Canada in the right direction.
Alberta is where that shift will go furthest. The lowest corporate tax rate in Canada. No provincial sales tax. No payroll tax. A regulatory burden we have cut by 36 per cent.
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
Canada is making ~66% of capital investments immediately deductible through a “Productivity Mega Deduction”
This makes Canada’s average Marginal Effective Tax Rate (METR) for companies a third of what it costs to do business in the US
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
My god how far we have come as a country in just over a year…a Liberal saying: “In the world we need to live in - not in a magical world - in the world as it is not as we wish it to be, this is the most productive way to be a clean and conventional energy superpower and it makes complete sense to do that.”
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
Another big win for Alberta. This will drastically cut costs and uncertainty for our energy and electricity sectors.
Still more work ahead to undo the host of bad laws and economic policies of the Trudeau years…but it’s exciting to see real progress. Onward!
Yesterday the Federal Government announced that new oil sands facilities and gas-fired electricity plants will no longer be regulated under C-69. These projects will now be left to the provinces to regulate and approve.
This fulfills a promise made by the Federal Government to Alberta in our MOU implementation agreement signed previously.
This reform will decrease costly duplication and regulatory uncertainty. It will also help our energy and electricity sectors attract investment and grow.
C-69 still needs to be either repealed or amended further to fully respect provincial autonomy and reduce regulatory uncertainty - and we will continue to pursue our case in front of Alberta’s Court of Appeal to help facilitate these needed changes.
However, there is also no doubt that today’s decision by the federal government is yet another needed step in the right direction for Alberta and all of Canada 🍁
Matthew Lofgren retweeted
Great news for Alberta's education system. Our students rank #1 in the country and #8 in the world.
My sincere thanks to the parents and teachers who put real learning and critical thinking at the forefront of our children’s education. Congratulations as well to the students who did the hard work behind that result 👏
