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The Honourable
Jason Nixon
MLA
Leader of the Opposition in Alberta
In office
October 30, 2017 – January 4, 2018
PremierRachel Notley
Preceded byNathan Cooper
Succeeded byJason Kenney
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre
Assumed office
May 5, 2015
Preceded byJoe Anglin
Personal details
Born (1980-05-26) May 26, 1980 (age 44)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Political partyUnited Conservative
(2017-present)[1]
Other political
affiliations		Wildrose Party (until 2017), Conservative Party of Canada[2]
SpouseTiffany Nixon[1]
Children3
Residence(s)Sundre, Alberta, Canada[3]
Alma materAthabasca University[2]
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology[2]
Alberta Construction Safety Association[2]
ProfessionNon-Profit Agency Executive [2]
Chief Financial Officer [2]
Construction Safety Officer[2]
PortfolioChief Opposition Whip[4]
AwardsInitiated in the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (March, 2012)[2]
Websitewww.jasonnixon.ca[1]

Jason John Nixon (born May 26, 1980) is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre.[2][3]

He was first elected as a member of the Wildrose Party in 2015, and then he served on the negotiation team that created a framework for unity between the Wildrose Party and the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta.[5] The agreement was ratified and approved by the members of both parties in July 2017, establishing the United Conservative Party (UCP).[6]

After the merger, Nixon endorsed Jason Kenney in the United Conservative Party leadership election, 2017.[7] After Kenney was elected as the leader, Nixon served as Leader of the Official Opposition in Alberta until Kenney was able to win a seat (Calgary-Lougheed) in the Alberta legislature in a by-election.[8]

Nixon served as the Opposition House Leader in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.[9] He has previously served as the Wildrose opposition critic for Human Services and was a participant on the government's Ministerial Panel on Child Intervention.

Nixon served for years as the Executive Director at The Mustard Seed, a non-profit organization founded by his father Pat Nixon.[9][10] Nixon is an alumnus of Athabasca University and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting Major),[2] Post Secondary Diploma in Business Administration (Management Major)[2] and National Construction Safety Officer.[2]

During the 2019 Alberta election, Nixon was dogged with controversies about an alleged assault of a woman over a poaching incident on her property,[11] as well as a British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ruling about his handling of a sexual harassment complaint at his former company.[12]

After winning the 2019 election on the UCP ticket, he was sworn-in as Alberta's Minister of Environment and Parks on April 30, 2019.[13] He and his brother Jeremy Nixon are the first brothers to serve in the Alberta legislature at the same time.[14] Jason Nixon is one of five men named Jason serving in the UCP cabinet.[15]

Environmental views

After the 2019 Alberta general election, Nixon was appointed Minister of Environment and Parks.

While Nixon was the Leader of the Opposition in Alberta, he was vocal in his opposition to the proposed Bighorn Wildland Provincial Park, calling the plan a: "foreign-funded plot to wall off the back country to Albertans who call the region home."[16]

As the newly-appointed Minister, he indicated plans to stop the project entirely.

[Nixon said] that he is pleased that the NDPs plans to make changes to the Big Horn Country will not happen. “They are completely stopped,” he said, adding that the UCP is looking at increasing investment in the area.[17]

According to a biography on his website, he has worked in Alberta's oil and gas industry.[18]

Controversies

A 2005 incident resurfaced in in the press in 2017, where Nixon had fired a woman in retaliation for her sexual harassment complaint.[12]

A ruling from the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, handed down on Dec. 30, 2008, involved three companies: Nixon's company, Nixon Safety Consulting (NSC); Navigator, a company building a condo in Kelowna; and Con-Forte, a company that performed concrete work on the site. It also involved Greg Ford, an independent contractor. The tribunal found that Nixon's company fired its safety officer, Kori Harrison, in December 2005 after she complained that Ford had sexually harassed her.[12]

In 2009, he was charged for assault for allegedly threatening an Alberta woman over his poaching activities, with two other men, on her property. The charge was withdrawn, but a peace bond was entered. Nixon denies the claims.[19][20][11] A dashcam video submitted as evidence during a 2011 trial related to the alleged assault—allegedly showing Nixon confronting a Fish and Wildlife Officer—was blocked from public release by Alberta judge and former Progressive Conservative MLA Marlene Graham.[21]

In 2011, he was arrested for allegedly killing a wild horse in 2009, but was later acquitted, and successfully sued the RCMP.[10]

In 2015, while a student at Athabasca University, his student union voted to expel him from the organization for taking an Executive Director salary while not working for six months, interfering with the student newspaper, raising executive salaries without student consultation, and other bylaw violations.[22] The raises he initiated made him the: "highest paid Student Executive in Alberta. And not by a few dollars, but by more than 30%."[23]

In 2019, the former MLA for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre Joe Anglin asked the RCMP to investigate Nixon for obstruction of justice.[24]

Electoral history

2019 general election

2019 Alberta general election: Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Conservative Jason Nixon 20,579 81.64 +9.28
New Democratic Jeff Ible 2,293 9.10 -8.10
Alberta Party Joe Anglin 1,350 5.36 +4.85
Freedom Conservative Dawn Berard 303 1.20 –
Green Jane Drummond 286 1.13 +1.04
Alberta Independence David Rogers 185 0.73 –
Alberta Advantage Party Paula Lamoureux 161 0.64 –
Independent Gordon Francey 50 0.20 –
Total 25,207 99.26 –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 189 0.74
Turnout 25,396 75.36
Eligible voters 33,699
United Conservative notional hold Swing +8.69
Source(s)
Source: "80 - Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, 2019 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
Alberta. Chief Electoral Officer (2019). 2019 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Volume II (PDF) (Report). Vol. 2. Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 386–393. ISBN 978-1-988620-12-1. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

2015 general election

2015 Alberta general election: Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Wildrose Jason Nixon 6,670 40.11% -11.31%
Progressive Conservative Tammy Coté 5,296 31.85% -8.70%
New Democratic Hannah Schlamp 2,791 16.78% 11.58%
Independent Joe Anglin 1,871 11.25% –
Total 16,628 – –
Rejected, spoiled and declined 60 37 10
Eligible electors / turnout 32,578 51.26% -2.47%
Wildrose hold Swing -1.30%
Source(s)
Source: "77 - Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, 2015 Alberta general election". officialresults.elections.ab.ca. Elections Alberta. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
Chief Electoral Officer (2016). 2015 General Election. A Report of the Chief Electoral Officer (PDF) (Report). Edmonton, Alta.: Elections Alberta. pp. 411–412.
Alberta provincial government of Jason Kenney
Cabinet post (1)
Predecessor Office Successor
Shannon Phillips Minister of Environment and Parks
April 30, 2019– 		Incumbent


References

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  7. ^ "Former Wildrose and PC caucus members endorse Jason Kenney, take shots at Brian Jean | CBC News". CBC. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  8. ^ "Nixon appointed opposition house leader - Mountain View Gazette". Mountain View Gazette. 2017-10-31. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  9. ^ a b "Jason Nixon |". UCP Caucus. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  10. ^ a b Corbella, Licia (Nov 4, 2017). "Corbella: UCP's Jason Nixon is a giant in every way". Calgary Herald. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  11. ^ a b Hall, Josh (Apr 7, 2019). "Jason Nixon denies 'troubled past' allegations by NDP". Red Deer News Now. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  12. ^ a b c Bellefontaine, Michelle (Dec 12, 2017). "UCP house leader Jason Nixon fired woman after sex harassment complaint". CBC. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  13. ^ Singleton, Dan (Apr 30, 2019). "Jason Nixon named minister of Environment and Parks". Mountain View Gazette. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  14. ^ Clancy, Clare (Apr 30, 2019). "Nixons become first brothers to serve as Alberta MLAs at the same time". Edmonton Journal. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  15. ^ Dawson, Tyler (Apr 30, 2019). "Four guys named Jason: What you need to know about the Jason Kenney cabinet". National Post. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  16. ^ Lewis, Jeff (Jan 7, 2019). "On the Rockies' edge, frictions form over Alberta's plan for new provincial park". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
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  19. ^ Markus, Jade (Apr 7, 2019). "Decade-old charge against UCP candidate in spotlight week ahead of Alberta election". CBC. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  20. ^ Antoneshyn,, Alex (Apr 7, 2019). "'Complete and utter lie': Nixon denies rancher's claims of assault". CTV News. Retrieved May 2, 2019.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
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  22. ^ Lehtiniemi, Barbara (Jun 19, 2015). "Council Connection: AGM Survivors". The Voice: A Publication for the students of Athabasca University. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  23. ^ Low, Karl (Apr 17, 2019). "It's All About the Benjamins" (PDF). The Voice: A Publication for the students of Athabasca University. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  24. ^ Hall, Josh (Feb 2, 2019). "Nixon accused of obstruction of justice". Red Deer News Now. Retrieved May 2, 2019.


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