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Grant Hunter passed a small test on cutting red tape with flying colours Monday afternoon.
When asked how to go about reaching him should I have more questions once I start writing this column, Alberta’s Associate Minister of Red Tape Reduction suggested that rather than call his communications director, just call him directly. And while he’s not the first minister to give me his cell phone number, eliminating unnecessary steps in any process is what this former entrepreneur has long sought.
Hunter launched a new website Monday, CutRedTape.alberta.ca, that seeks information and ideas from Albertans on how to cut the regulatory burden that has choked off the Alberta Advantage.
“Tell us the problem and how it affects you,” asks the website. If you can think of a solution, then Hunter wants you to make those suggestions, too.
“Lots of people have said, ‘We’re getting absolutely hammered by layer-upon-layer of red tape.’ And, so that’s one of the major planks of our government in terms of getting Albertans back to work. The three planks of that plan are: lowering marginal tax rates, sustainable government and lowering the regulatory burden — what we used to call the Alberta Advantage.”
Hunter says he’s hearing everything from easy-to-solve smaller ideas to larger systemic examples in Alberta’s struggling oil and gas sector.
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