THAT the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo make a formal submission to the Fair Deal Committee to:
· encourage the Provincial Government to attend 2020 Federation of Canadian Municipalities Annual Conference being held in Toronto Ontario, to engage with, educate and influence municipal leaders across Alberta;
· consider opportunities to adjust taxation incentives and deductions for industry and business to reduce the benefit of employing labour from other provinces;
· encourage the National Research Council to establish a National Centre for Cleaner Fossil Fuels in Fort McMurray with the goal of commercializing technologies that monetize the value of the oilsands while building environmental technology companies; and
· encourage federal and provincial procurement policies to include a 5% Indigenous spending goal to support the continued evolutions of Indigenous enterprises.