2026-05-21 from cbc.ca
Premier Danielle Smith has installed one of her most veteran lieutenants as Alberta’s new finance minister, in a cabinet shakeup announced in the shadow of a looming separatist referendum.
Jason Nixon, who’s been a senior minister for much of the United Conservative government’s seven-year reign, is now tasked with stewarding Alberta’s fiscal house through oil-price gyrations.
He replaces outgoing finance minister Nathan Horner, who delivered the last three Alberta budgets but requested to be excluded from this reshaped cabinet because he isn’t running in next year’s election.
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