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Alberta’s new Premier Jason Kenney had one message after he was sworn in at Government House in Edmonton Tuesday: The work starts now.

Flanked by 19 new cabinet ministers and three associate ministers, Kenney said the main focus for his team over the next four years will be economic growth, job creation, getting pipelines built and standing up for Alberta.

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Tuesday’s event was a low-key affair compared with the public celebrations of the NDP government in 2015, when thousands of Albertans descended on the sunny legislature grounds for politics and ice cream.

Instead, Tuesday saw only cabinet ministers, their friends and families, party insiders and a handful of unsuccessful UCP candidates slog through a late-spring snowstorm into Government House.

“I promised to Albertans we wouldn’t waste a day, or an hour, getting to work to renew the Alberta advantage. That begins this afternoon,” Kenney said.