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Provincial Priorities Act rollout: OICs 32/2025, 39/2025, 40/2025, 41/2025 + MO 2025_002

This cluster enacts the Provincial Priorities Act through proclamation (OIC 39), enabling regulation (OIC 41) designating provincial entities for ministerial oversight, structural support via a new Deputy Minister of Operations (OIC 40), a…

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MO 2025_002: Premier Danielle Smith, pursuant to the Government Organization Act, made a regulation exempting public post-secondary institutions from being considered a Provincial agency for the purpose of section 11 of that Act.

What changed

  • OIC 2025/32: This Order in Council appoints Darren Hedley as Acting Deputy Minister of Health and amends Order in Council 160/2023 by striking out section 1(h).
  • OIC 2025/39: This Order in Council proclaims the Provincial Priorities Act in force on April 1, 2025.
  • OIC 2025/40: The OIC authorizes an additional Deputy Minister position for the President of Executive Council, designated as Deputy Minister of Operations, and appoints Enyinnah Okere to that role.
  • OIC 2025/41: The OIC makes the Provincial Priorities Regulation, which designates various entities as 'provincial entities' and requires them to obtain prior ministerial or Executive Council approval for intergovernmental agreements.
  • MO 2025_002: Premier Danielle Smith, pursuant to the Government Organization Act, made a regulation exempting public post-secondary institutions from being considered a Provincial agency for the purpose of section 11 of that Act.

Why it matters

  • This cluster enacts the Provincial Priorities Act through proclamation (OIC 39), enabling regulation (OIC 41) designating provincial entities for ministerial oversight, structural support via a new Deputy Minister of Operations (OIC 40), an acting deputy appointment in Health (OIC 32), and an exemption for post-secondary institutions (MO 002). Together, these form a coordinated institutional restructuring to centralize executive control over provincial entities and priorities. No independent news coverage found treating as pattern, but contents show clear policy push.

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