(The Canadian Press) Off to Ottawa Kenney headed to Ottawa to push Trudeau for “fair deal for Alberta within Canada” Dec 6, 2019 3:11 PM

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and eight cabinet ministers are travelling to Ottawa next week to push for federal co-operation to grow the economy.

Kenney says he will head into a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday and ask for $2.4 billion dollars in fiscal stabilization money going back to the start of the oil price collapse in 2014.

He says the federal government has not yet rejected the proposal and is open to discussing it.

“Albertans are proud Canadians. We are simply asking for a fair deal for Alberta within Canada,” Jenney said in a release. “Albertans have contributed over $600 billion in net transfers to the rest of Canada since 1960, including $200 billion in the last decade – even as our province has suffered its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.”