Alberta announced a five-year plan to boost rural communities by investing in infrastructure, tourism, skills development, and entrepreneurship. It coordinates some initiatives already in motion and adds new ones, with more than $1.5 billion combined behind them.
Nate Horner, minister of agriculture and irrigation, said at the announcement on Wednesday: “We have all these cogs turning independently. The hope of this plan is that we bring it all together. ... This will provide that communication at a government level and an intergovernmental level. Transportation, health care, broadband—all these things we know are important to our communities.”
