Key Influencer - Tanya Fir - Associate Minister of Red Tape Reduction

Reducing Alberta’s regulatory red tape by 33 per cent was one of the cornerstone platform items for the United Conservative Party during the 2019 provincial election. According to the Government of Alberta, the UCP have been able to eliminate 21.14 per cent to date attributed to a net reduction of 135,532. Given that there is still 11.86 per cent and just over one year in this term remaining, Associate Minister Tanya Fir comes into the role at a critical time for the party.

Associate Minister Fir is the former minister of Economic Development, Trade and Tourism (now Jobs, Economy and Innovation) and was most recently appointed to the red tape portfolio on July 8, 2021. She moved to Alberta from British Columbia in 1985, settling in Calgary where she now represents the constituency of Calgary-Peigan.

Prior to entering the political world, Fir spent nineteen years working on the human resources side of the oil and gas industry, including sixteen years with Canadian Natural Resources Limited. She earned her Bachelor of Commerce from the University