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<\/a><\/p>\n*** Photo credits: Kempton Lam. ***<\/p>\n The following is a report of the\u00a0prime minister stephen harper Calgary events<\/a> in Calgary yesterday.<\/p>\n 2010 Budget Roundtable<\/strong><\/p>\n Participants:<\/p>\n prime minister stephen harper<\/a> Brian Vaasjo – Capital Power<\/a> Here are a few brief points made by the PMO “designated” roundtable participant\u00a0Doug Mitchell<\/a>,<\/p>\n Edmonton-based\u00a0Cal Nichols<\/a> also stopped to answer a few questions from the media,<\/p>\n From Canadian Press “PM meets with business leaders, Alberta caucus<\/a><\/strong>“,<\/p>\n “Harper projected optimism in a short statement he made for reporters before closing the doors on the meeting.<\/p>\n “We had some good news last week on the jobs front. We had a little bit of good news on the Buy America front. Commodity prices are obviously a lot better than they were a year ago,” he said.<\/p>\n “That all said, we think we still have some significant challenges going forward, given the fragile state of the global recovery.”<\/p>\n A deal was struck last week that allows Canadian companies to be temporarily exempt from some of the Buy American elements of Washington’s stimulus package.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n fyi: here is a link to a 2009 CBC report of mr harper’s roundtable in Calgary<\/a>.<\/p>\n The following video shows mr harper at his photo ops, and two participants talking about the roundtable discussions in full. More discussion of mr harper’s visit to Calgary after the video.<\/p>\n Note: It is hard to write about prime minister stephen harper’s budget roundtable and Alberta caucus meeting in Calgary yesterday without stating how limited and restricted the media access were (and apparently the pm’s previous Calgary visits are the same). The “Photo opportunity off the top (cameras and photographers only)<\/em><\/strong>” stipulation, meaning no chances for gathered reporters to ask any questions, lead to superficial reporting of very limited value of what the prime minister thinks on the core issues. This reporter will explore that in another article.<\/p>\n Filed under: Alberta<\/a>, Business<\/a>, Calgary<\/a>, Canada<\/a>, Democracy<\/a>, politics<\/a>, Video<\/a>, YouTube<\/a> *** Photo credits: Kempton Lam. *** The following is a report of the\u00a0prime minister stephen harper Calgary events in Calgary yesterday. 2010 Budget Roundtable Participants: prime minister stephen harper environment minister jim prentice Brian Vaasjo – Capital Power Cal Nichols – Gasland Group of Companies Scott Thon – AltaLink Hal Kvisle – TransCanada (PDF) Doug […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Doug](\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2797\/4342063312_020d5a60b8_m.jpg\")
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\nenvironment minister jim prentice<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Cal Nichols – Gasland Group of Companies<\/a>
\n Scott Thon – AltaLink<\/a>
\n Hal Kvisle – TransCanada (PDF)<\/a>
\n Doug Mitchell – Borden Ladner Gervais LLP<\/a>
\n Michael Wilson – Agrium (PDF)<\/a>
\n Randall Eresman – Encana (PDF)<\/a> \u202c
\n Ron Mannix<\/a> – Coril Holdings (ref1<\/a>, ref2<\/a>,\u00a0ref3<\/a>, ref4<\/a>)
\n Murray Edwards – Canadian Natural Resources<\/a>
\n John Wright – Petrobank Energy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
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