Frederick Lee (Ted) Morton (born March 28, 1949, Los Angeles, California) is a former university professor, an Albertan politician and currently a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Events 37 - Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies Alberta (ælˈbɝtə is one of Canada's prairie provinces. It became a province on September 1 1905 The Legislative Assembly of Alberta is one of two components of the Legislature of Alberta, the other being the Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta. He is currently the Minister of Sustainable resource development. Morton was candidate for the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives but was ultimately defeated by leadership candidate Ed Stelmach when party members voted for Ralph Klein's replacement on 2 December 2006. The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial right-of-centre party in the Canadian province of Alberta. Edward Michael Stelmach (ˈstɛlmæk (born May 11 1951 is the current Premier of Alberta, Canada having served in this capacity since December 14 2006 Ralph Phillip Klein (born November 1, 1942) was the premier of the Canadian province of Alberta and leader of the Alberta Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
Morton moved to Wyoming in 1952, where his father worked in the oil and gas exploration business. The State of Wyoming ( is a sparsely populated state in the western region of the United States. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He moved to Canada in the 1980s. In 1991, Morton and his wife Bambi became Canadian citizens. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar.
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Academic career
Morton obtained his B.A. from Colorado College and earned his Masters and Ph.D. in political economy from the University of Toronto. The Colorado College (familiarly known as CC) is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A Master of Arts ( Latin: Magister Artium) is a Postgraduate academic Master's degree awarded by universities in a large "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Political economy originally was the term for studying production buying and selling and their relations with law custom and government This article is about the University of Toronto's St George Campus During university Ted was active in the anti-Vietnam war effort. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia In 1981, Ted joined the faculty of the University of Calgary as a political science professor. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 The University of Calgary is a research-intensive Public university in Calgary Alberta, Canada. Political science is a branch of Social sciences that deals with the theory and practice of Politics and the description and analysis of Political systems He is currently on an extended leave of absence so that he can carry out political duties.
Morton is part of a group of academics called the Calgary School whose teaching and writing exercised a very significant influence on the future of conservatism in Canada. The Calgary School is a name used to refer to a group of like-minded academics from the University of Calgary ’s Political science and History departments In Canada, political conservatism is generally considered to be primarily represented by the Conservative Party of Canada at the federal level and by various
He has published five books, one of which won the 1992 Alberta Writers' Guild award, and more than fifty scholarly articles. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) His columns have appeared in the National Post, the Calgary Herald, the Globe and Mail and the Calgary Sun. The National Post is a Canadian English-language national Newspaper based in Don Mills, Ontario, a district of The Calgary Herald is a daily newspaper published in the Canadian city of Calgary Alberta. The Globe and Mail is a Canadian English language nationally distributed Newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities The Calgary Sun is a daily Newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Political career
Morton was an early supporter of the Triple-E Senate Committee and a public critic of the Meech Lake (1987) and Charlottetown (1992) Accords. The Triple-E Senate (standing for equal, elected, and effective) is a topic of Constitutional debate in Canada and a proposed The Meech Lake Accord was a set of failed amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated in 1987 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the provincial Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) The Charlottetown Accord was a package of constitutional amendments proposed by the Canadian federal and provincial governments in 1992. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar)
He was elected as a Reform Party Senator-in-Waiting in the 1998 Alberta Senate nominee election. The Reform Party of Alberta is a defunct provincial Political party in Alberta, Canada, that was registered with Elections Alberta The 2nd Alberta Senate nominee election was held in Alberta, Canada, on October 19 1998 in conjunction with the Alberta Municipal
In 2001, Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day appointed him Parliamentary Director of Policy and Research for the party. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. The Canadian Alliance (in French Alliance Canadienne) formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance (or in French Alliance réformiste-conservateur Stockwell Burt Day Jr, PC, MP (born August 16, 1950 in Barrie Ontario) is a Canadian Politician and That same year, he was one of a group of six Albertans (including Stephen Harper—later to become Prime Minister in 2006) who authored the “Alberta Agenda“, also known as the "firewall letter", a manifesto that calls on the government of Alberta to use all of its constitutional powers to reduce the influence of the Federal government on the lives and personal finances of Albertans. WikipediaManual of Style (biographies#Honorific prefixes --> Stephen Joseph Harper PC The Prime Minister of Canada ( French: Premier ministre du Canada) is the primary Minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus Incumbents See also 2006 Canadian incumbents Events January January 1: Thirty cities across the province The Alberta Agenda is a loosely-organized Political movement initiated by a letter written by prominent Albertans including federal Prime Minister The Constitution of Canada is the supreme law in Canada; the country's Constitution is an amalgamation of codified acts and uncodified traditions The politics of Canada function within a framework of Constitutional monarchy and a federal system of parliamentary government with strong democratic
In the 2004 Alberta general election, Morton won the newly created seat of Foothills-Rocky View and now sits as an MLA for the Alberta Progressive Conservatives. The Alberta general election of 2004 was the twenty-sixth general election for the province of Alberta, Canada. Foothills-Rocky View is a provincial Electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. A Member of the Legislative Assembly, or MLA, is a representative elected by the voters of an Electoral district to the Legislature or Legislative The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial right-of-centre party in the Canadian province of Alberta. In that role, he has advocated for tax cuts, against same-sex marriage, for increased saving of energy revenues, for a lobbyist registry, and for fixed election dates. A tax cut is a reduction in taxes. Economic stimulus via tax cuts along with interest rate intervention and deficit spending are one of the central tenets of Keynesian economics Same-sex marriage in Alberta: The province of Alberta began granting marriage licences to same-sex couples on July 20, 2005 upon the granting of Royal Lobbying includes all attempts to influence Legislators and officials whether by other legislators constituents or organized groups A Fixed-term election is an Election that occurs on a set date and cannot be changed by the incumbent politician A primary facet of his environmental policy is the revocation of Métis hunting rights [1]. He was the only Conservative MLA to publicly oppose the Prosperity Bonus. The Prosperity Bonus, also nicknamed Ralph bucks, announced in September 2005 is the name given to a program designed to pay money back to residents of the Canadian Within six months of his election, the Calgary Herald gave Morton the highest grade of all new Calgary-area MLAs and rated him “Most likely to succeed. The Calgary Herald is a daily newspaper published in the Canadian city of Calgary Alberta. ”
On December 15th 2006 he was named Minister of Sustainable resource development.
Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership campaign
As a candidate in the 2006 Progressive Conservative leadership race Morton placed second to front runner Jim Dinning on the first ballot. The second ballot took place Saturday, 2 December, 2006. In the leadership campaign Morton's primary policies include:
- Maintaining publicly funded health care, while allowing private health care for non-emergency procedures.
- Providing fixed election dates, and maximum term lengths for the office of Premier.
- The creation of a lobbyist registry and strengthening of the office of auditor general.
- Promoting a bill that would ensure no Alberta laws penalized someone expressing disagreement with same-sex marriage, allow provincially appointed marriage commissioners to refuse to marry same-sex couples, and place restrictions on the teaching of marriage as including same-sex couples.
- Advocating "more Alberta, less Ottawa," including starting an Alberta pension plan, replacing the RCMP in Alberta with a provincial police force, and exercising greater provincial influence in the area of immigration.
- Ensuring that Alberta has greater control over its non-renewable energy resources.
Morton has referred to Edmonton as "the capital city of northern Alberta. " [2]
Criticism
Several figures have publicly expressed worry that Morton's private member Bill 208 would have the effect of protecting, in statute, public discrimination against gays and lesbians. [3]. Morton has been criticized by his constituents on the issue of logging in the beloved Kananaskis region. Under his watch, critics argue that part of Kananaskis Country, including part of the Trans Canada Trail, has been logged. Morton argues that the logging was done to prevent pine beetles, but many experts in the area disagree [4], [5].
External links
- Biography for Dr. Ted Morton on the website of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
- Ted Morton Official Website
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| David Coutts | Minister of Sustainable Resource Development (2006–present) |
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