Don MacIntyre
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Don MacIntyre MLA |
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Don MacIntyre 2015
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| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake | |
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Assumed office May 5, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Kerry Towle |
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| Born | 1955 (age 61–62) North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada. |
| Political party | Wildrose Party |
| Residence | Sylvan Lake, Alberta |
| Occupation | Instructor/Curriculum Developer, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Edmonton, Alberta. |
| Religion | Evangelical Christian |
Donald Brian MacIntyre (born 1955) is a Canadian politician who was elected in the Alberta general election, 2015 to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Innisfail-Sylvan Lake.
Born in 1955 to Donald R. and Marian B. MacIntyre he has one brother James R. born in 1958. The family moved from Saskatchewan to the Okanagan Valley in 1961 traveling in a 1958 Volkswagen over the Big Bend Highway, a narrow gravel road running through the Rocky Mountains between Alberta and British Columbia, often subject to mudslides and washouts. "I remember being a very terrified little boy riding in the back of that car looking over the edge of the road into what seemed to me were gorges so deep I could not see their bottom." After completing High School in 1973 he left home the following year and settled in Alberta. He has six children, four boys and two girls. He and his wife Megan make their home in Sylvan Lake.
On January 2, 2017, McIntyre - while speaking to the press - asserted that man made climate change is not the primary cause of the planet's warming. This is in conflict with the current Scientific opinion on climate change, which asserts a 95% confidence that climate change is primarily caused by man.
The Alberta New Democratic Party - which holds a majority government in the legislature - responded by requesting that the Wildrose Party - the official opposition - remove Don MacIntyre from his position as energy critic. Leduc-Beaumont NDP MLA Shaye Anderson was quoted saying "“It’s irresponsible to lend climate change-denying conspiracies the credibility of the office of the Official Opposition. Unless (Wildrose Leader Brian) Jean agrees with what Mr. MacIntyre is saying, he must remove him from his position.”".
The Wildrose Party responded by issuing a statement that “We get calls daily from Albertans living in NDP-held ridings furious that their MLAs are not listening to their opposition to the carbon tax. I suggest they spend their time listening to those concerns,” - in reference to the 20 dollars per ton carbon tax put in place by the Alberta government.
Don MacIntyre at White Haven Farm April 2015
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