The Alberta Enterprise Group (AEG) is a member-based, non-profit business and corporate advocacy organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.^[1]

The organization's members collectively employ more than 150,000 people and generate billions in economic activity each year.^[2]

The Alberta Enterprise Group's Board of Directors is mainly composed of prominent executives from oil and gas corporations in Alberta. As of July 2023, the Board was composed of:

In 2006 a group of Alberta business leaders came together to form a fundraising/political action group called Grassroots Leadership Group.^[16] The group unsuccessfully supported Mark Norris on the first ballot in his Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta leadership bid. After Norris dropped off the ballot, the group supported eventual winner Ed Stelmach on the second ballot.^[17]

After the PC leadership process, Grassroots Leadership Group members decided to keep the group together as a business advocacy organization and re-branded as Alberta Enterprise Group, headed by then-Chairman Cal Nichols.

In the early days the organization was led by Tim Shipton until his departure to Join the Oilers Entertainment Group (OEG).^[18] Tim Shipton was previously director of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta.^[2]

In February, 2019 the organization announced the appointment of John Liston as President.^[19] In June, 2019 Danielle Smith was the President.^[20]

The organization has conducted several meetings over the years trying to draw more business to Canada. In 2008 AEG brought 100 of the province's business leaders to Washington D.C. to meet with congressional leaders and United States business leaders.^[21] Then in 2009 the organization brought more than 60 of the province's business leaders to Geneva, Switzerland in an effort to showcase Alberta to the European investment community. In both 2008 and 2009 the organization brought more than 150 businessmen and politicians from across North America to tour the oil sands mining operations. Participants visited Syncrude, Albian and CNRL's Horizon Mine.^[2]

In the spring of 2010, AEG organized the Alberta Connects outreach mission to Ottawa. Alberta Connects introduced AEG members to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Finance Minister Flaherty, Environment Minister Prentice, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and 55 other Members of Parliament and Senators.^[22]

In 2011, the group returned to Washington, D.C. to engage U.S political leaders in a discussion on improving trade relations between Canada and the United States and ensuring market access for Canadian energy.^[23] In 2012, the group brought a delegation of 40 business leaders to Quebec to meet with business and political leaders in that province, purportedly to improve trade ties between the two provinces.^[24]

The organization is a strong proponent of what it calls "sustainable resource development," arguing that impediments to resource development imposed by excessive regulation hurt the Canadian economy and government revenues.^[25]

The group has also been engaged in the discussion on Alberta's provincial budget, advocating spending restraint as opposed to tax increases to address a growing government deficit.^[26]

• Economy of Alberta
• Petroleum industry in Canada
• Athabasca oil sands
• Imperial Oil
• Environmental issues in Alberta
• Energy Alberta Corporation