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FORMER KENNEY CHIEF PAID +$200K AFTER LEAVING PREMIER’S OFFICE FOR NON PROFIT
WHICH RECEIVES PROVINCIAL FUNDING

by Admin August 5, 2022, 11:29 pm



By Rachel Emmanuel

The Alberta energy minister’s office paid over $200,000 to a “strategic advisor”
contract worker who left Premier Jason Kenney’s office to work full time as head
of a non-profit which receives provincial funding. 

Lawrence Kaumeyer was working as Kenney’s acting chief of staff until August
2021. He joined Ducks Unlimited Canada as the CEO on October 4, 2021, said
organization spokesperson Janine Massey. 



One month later, on Nov. 11, 2021, Kaumeyer secured a consulting contract with
the energy department at a rate of $118.91 per hour. In this role, he reported
to Kenney’s chief of staff. His contract ran until April 4.

Ducks Unlimited is registered to lobby the federal government and the B.C.
government. Kaumeyer was registered to lobby Ottawa on behalf of Ducks Unlimited
Canada. 

Ducks Unlimited Canada is also a CRA registered charity. Charities are not
required to register to lobby in Alberta.





Due to employee vacation schedules, Ducks Unlimited Canada was unable to confirm
details on “government relations efforts in Alberta during the relevant time
period,” Massey told True North. 

Ducks 2021 annual report said it partnered with the Alberta Treasury Branch and
the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce to deliver the Revolving Land
Conservation Program, which placed 5,998 acres placed in conservation easements
leveraged by $10.5 million in loans. 

Ducks Unlimited Canada is also a partner in the Alberta North American Waterfowl
Management Plan, which conserves Alberta’s wetland resources. Alberta’s
Environment and Parks department did not respond to True North’s request about
whether it provides funding and how much funding it provides for this
partnership by publication deadline. 

Asked to provide funding figures for this partnership, Massey said Ducks has “a
lot of different programs which involve a variety of funding partnerships.”



“Based on all available information, no new funding was awarded or received by
DUC from the Alberta Government between the period of Oct 04, 2021 and June 09,
2022,” she wrote in an email.

Kaumeyer finished the 2021 fiscal year with $161,724 in earnings, plus $44,009
in cash benefits. His earnings were filed under the energy ministry contract,
even while Kaumeyer spent most of the year as acting chief of staff, an
executive council position. 



This is indicative of a sunshine list reporting issue, said Brock Harrison,
Kenney’s executive director of communications. 

“Mr. Kaumeyer’s employment contract with the Government of Alberta through the
Ministry of Energy was approved by the Ethics Commissioner,” Harrison said in an
emailed statement. 

Reached by phone on Friday, Kaumeyer referred True North to Ducks Unlimited
Canada and the Premier’s office. He said his roles with both organizations were
cleared.

“I don’t have any concerns,” Kaumeyer told True North.

As Kenney’s chief of staff, Kaumeyer was deeply involved with federal government
negotiations on energy files, namely carbon capture, said Alex Puddifant, press
secretary to Energy Minister Sonya Savage. 

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“The Minister of Energy felt his experience and relationships with respect to
these files would be a unique asset in moving them forward,” Puddifant said in a
statement to True North. “As such, Mr. Kaumeyer’s services were extended on a
temporary basis in the Ministry of Energy to continue working on these files.”

The cash benefits were paid out for vacation hours and benefits in lieu of
pension, not as a bonus, Puddifant said.





Ducks Unlimited Canada never saw Kaumeyer’s contract with the province, Massey
told True North. 

“(Ducks Unlimited Canada’s) only knowledge of Mr. Kaumeyer’s engagement with his
former employer related to transition efforts to extract himself from all
matters,” Massey said in an email. “That transition work, as described to (Ducks
Unlimited Canada), was not considered to pose any issues of compliance with
(Ducks Unlimited Canada) policies.”

Kaumeyer left Ducks Unlimited to “pursue other opportunities,” she added. His
last day with the company was June 9.

UCP leadership candidate and UCP MLA Brian Jean said he’s been concerned with
the Premier’s office hiring back people who’ve left on hourly contracts. Jean
said he would change laws to prevent this from occurring again, if elected. 

“When you leave the Premier’s office you should leave it,” he said in a
statement to True North. “Having one foot in the Premier’s office and one in the
private sector is just an invitation to problems and abuse.”





Prior to being named Kenney’s acting chief of staff in January 2021, Kaumeyer
was the premier’s principal secretary, a role he began in September 2020. 

He ended the 2020 fiscal year with $156,835 plus $21,410 in bonuses.

Kaumeyer was also in attendance at the infamous Sky Palace dinner, in which
Kenney and key ministers were photographed dining outside during the Covid
restrictions. The premier has since apologized. 

Kenney cited lasting anger over his Covid policy as a reason for his impending
resignation. The premier will step down when UCP members select a new leader on
October 6. 

Rachel is a seasoned political reporter who’s covered government institutions
from a variety of levels. A Carleton University journalism graduate, she was a
multimedia reporter for three local Niagara newspapers. Her work has been
published in the Toronto Star. Rachel was the inaugural recipient of the
Political Matters internship, placing her at The Globe and Mail’s parliamentary
bureau. She spent three years covering the federal government for iPolitics.
Rachel is the Alberta correspondent for True North based in Edmonton.



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North’s fact-based, independent journalism.

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Instead, we depend on the generosity of Canadians like you.

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