MLA Neudorf looking forward to year ahead
By Lethbridge Herald on January 3, 2025.
Lethbridge East MLA Nathan Neudorf says he’s looking forward to 2025 after a productive past year for the government and his Ministry of Affordability and Utilities.
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Nathan Neudorf is looking forward to 2025 and work in the legislature involving his Ministry of Affordability and Utilities.
The UCP MLA for Lethbridge East is reflected upon a productive year for the government as 2024 wound down.
The MLA spoke to The Herald recently on a wide range of matters during a year-end interview.
The highlight of 2024 for Neudorf was the amount of work his ministry accomplished.
“We have begun a huge amount of work on restructuring the electricity market. We’ve accomplished a huge amount of work on updating the transmission regulations that have been in need of change for at least a decade if not longer,” said Neudorf at his constituency office.
And Premier Danielle Smith increased his mandate letter to include the entire nuclear file “which is a very exciting future focus. We have a huge role to play in hydrogen development,” a major future focus for lowering emissions, said Neudorf.
And his work has a large role to play in the development of artificial intelligence and data centres, he added.
“I have a large role to play on Treasury Board as vice chair, working on the finances of every ministry and our government. I sit on the public sector compensation cabinet committee which is working with the Minister of Finance working through public sector compensation and those deals. That’s a major responsibility,” added Neudorf.
He also in 2024 sat on the productivity review cabinet committee with the premier, analyzing every ministry to make sure the government can do the most with the least to benefit Albertans.
Neudorf also sits on the Alberta First cabinet policy committee.
“We’ve done a lot in a very small ministry and out of a small office,” Neudorf added.
During his entire political career, Neudorf has held many positions and worked on many files, he said, adding “it’s a tremendous honour to represent Lethbridge on that much larger scale and stage.”
Being part of cabinet is another opportunity to serve all residents of the province, he added.
He’s also worked to get funding for the water and wastewater treatments plants here and began discussions in 2019 with former University of Lethbridge Mike Mahon to lay the foundation for the new rural medical training program that is going to have its first intakes next fall.
Neudorf was also involved for five years in the effort of the old Lethbridge College to become a polytechnic and he’s worked efforts to develop the city airport.
“We continue to work on the economic corridor, Highway 3 twinning” and irrigation, he said.
“All of that agricultural development, a lot of the production and manufacturing comes into Lethbridge.”
He also said DeHavilland coming to Calgary will have a benefit for Lethbridge because that company is a major purchaser of the engines built at the Pratt and Whitney plant here.
“That’s a major benefit to our province and Lethbridge, in particular,” he added.
Lethbridge has been the beneficiary of government funding which includes in the last five years two new elementary schools and the upcoming modernization of another one as well as a gym expansion at a Francophone school, he said.
“This year’s been a pretty good for Lethbridge, I think.”
On the subject of the Lethbridge and District Exhibition, Neudorf says from the beginning he said will advocate for it if upgrades to the airport were seen – upgrades the province contributed to – and if commercial attraction is brought to the LDE, specifically a hotel.
And while that hasn’t happened yet, it would provide an economic boost both directly and indirectly to the LDE and the Agri-Food Hub and Trade Centre, Neudorf said.
Agriculture societies play an important cultural role in Alberta, says Neudorf, and he believes “culture is worth a lot. We need to support that appropriately and we need the whole community to work together to make that a success,” said Neudorf.
That’s why he says his advocacy has been always based on three thing: the airport has to work better, there has to be private commercial investment and a cultural piece is needed.
In the spring 2025, a number of legislation will be coming forward relating to his ministry, the first time “in a really major way” we’ll be a large portion of the legislation,” Neudorf added.
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Happy New Year to you and your family Mr. Neudorf. Thank you for your continued, dedicated service to the Lethbridge community and your work in the Legislature. Special thanks to you for carrying the load (very successfully, I might add) of the Lethbridge West constituents after our NDP, MLA (Shannon Philllips) abruptly vacated her seat.
All the very best in 2025.
“[Neudorf] also in 2024 sat on the productivity review cabinet committee with the premier, analyzing every ministry to make sure the government can do the most with the least to benefit Albertans.”
Is there not a significant error in this statement? Should it not properly read:
“[Neudorf]…sat on the productivity review cabinet committee with the premier, analyzing every ministry to make sure the government can do the least to benefit Albertans and the most to benefit themselves and the corporate friends of the UCP!”
Glaringly absent from Mr. Neudorf”s productivity review is mention of the centralizing of power in the current GoA.
In a recent item in Alberta Views, independent journalist, Jeremy Appel, quotes University of Calgary political scientist, Lisa Young, who asserts that the legislative changes associated with the centralization of power in this province is motivated by a “belief that conservatives are entitled to a political monopoly in the province, and that other perspectives are illegitimate”.
Entitlement IS NOT democracy!
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/05/06/Why-UCP-Is-Threat-Democracy/
https://albertaviews.ca/the-ucp-want-more-control/
https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-foip-bill-34/
https://albertapolitics.ca/2024/12/during-eventful-fall-session-of-the-alberta-legislature-ucp-attacks-the-rights-of-citizens-on-several-fronts/
Addendum: Pratt & Whitney? War machine suppliers for the genocide occurring in the Middle East
https://www.prattwhitney.com/en/newsroom/news/2015/12/02/pratt-whitney-israeli-ministry-of-defense-sign-historic-15-year-f100-engine-su
Let’s see my turn to shoot the messenger. The Tyee is a far left wing anti government (UCP) publication. Show me an article where they support anything but left wing agendas. Goes to their credibility.
You may “shoot the messenger” all you want. Your self-appointed task is to refute the points made in The Tyee op-ed. The ball’s in your court, buckwheat.
Another example of over-reach in municipal affairs by the current GoA.
https://www.jasperlocal.com/2024/12/13/not-a-usual-situation-pressure-mounting-to-strike-interim-housing-agreement/