Participants hard at work at the Policy Development Roundtable

We had a great turn out for our Policy Development roundtable on Jan. 17th. All ages were represented, with a diverse industry representation as well. These roundtables are valuable in that they assist the Chamber board and Political Action committee to get an idea of the issues faced by our business members. The PAC committee works all year addressing the issues raised by the members and seeking out policy areas that need to be addressed. I also sit on the Political Action committee of the Alberta Chamber of Commerce and have just recently begun dialing into the meetings that have been initiated by the Sask Chamber.

On January 18th, a team of Community Leaders lead by the Chamber ventured out in the cold to attend a meeting in Edmonton with the Deputy Ministers at Government House. Health, Education, Advanced Education, Seniors Care, Economic Development and City Government were all represented along with Chamber business members. This was a great opportunity to help the deputy mininsters to understand Lloydminster a bit better and to consider the challenges and complexities of our day to day operations whether that is City Council managing our City, businesses working in our bi-provincial environment, health and education trying to ensure equitable programs and services for all of the citizens who get those services in Lloydminster and emphasizing the "real" area served by Lloydminster as one city serving regions in two provinces.  I believe the meeting was successful and now we will begin work on phase III which will be to bring the Deputy Ministers from both provinces to Lloydminster for a special Lloydminster focused summit.


Mayor Mulligan, David Fan, Leanne Sauer, Brian McCook and Scott Musgrave in conversation as our team waits for the arrival of the Deputy Ministers.

Business Education Month will be holding a sales and marketing workshop in March. Normally to get this calibre of workshop, you would send your employees out of town for a day or two. What makes this workshop so affordable, is the workshop will be coming to you. For less than $300. you can have your employees attend a first rate workshop, with no extra travel and accomodation costs. Watch the Business Ed Month partner's workshops for more information on this workshop.

The new "Mix and Munch" noon hour networking events will begin in February. They will be held on the 4th Thursday of the month at noon and we look forward to meeting some members who are not able to make it out to the after hours Chamber Connect.

Till next time ......

Pat