Alberta Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd is defending her new chief-of-staff for his work in B-C for a group lobbying against pipelines. McCuaig-Boyd says Graham Mitchell had to be listed as a lobbyist for legal reasons, but only did administrative work. (Opposition Wildrose energy critic Leela Aheer (ah-HEER') says Mitchell's hiring does not send a reassuring message to an oil industry already jittery about Alberta's new NDP government.)

Date: 2015-06-11
Placeline: EDMONTON.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 14 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << do you have to be registered as a lobbyist but he was clear to me that he has never lobbied in that position he's never lobbied Pipeline and he totally supports the position we have here in elberto in our energy program >>

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