Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced an enhancement to the small business relaunch grant.

“We’re allocating another $350 million dollars bringing the total support for the small and medium size enterprise relaunch grant to just about a billion dollars,” announced Kenney.

Small businesses will be eligible for a payment of up to $10,000 from the Small and Medium Enterprise Relaunch grant.  Revenue requirements will remain the same and businesses that have seen a 30 per cent reduction in business will be eligible to receive support.

“If a business received previous payments, they can now receive as much as $30,000 altogether in support from this one program. We’re further expanding the time frame in which businesses that began operations between the first of March of last year and January 1st of 2021,” added the Premier.

The funding can be used for the following:

  • Cover the costs of items that help prevent the spread of COVID-19, such as PPE and cleaning supplies.
  • Pay rent, employee wages or replace inventory
  • Help businesses expand their online presence or e-commerce opportunities so that they can continue to serve customers.

Applications for the program will be opened by the end of April.  For more information, click here.