Robert Gary Dickson is a lawyer and former member of the

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and the first

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Information and Privacy Commissioner. Dickson was initially elected as a member of the

Alberta Liberal Party The Alberta Liberal Party () is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1905, it is the oldest active political party in Alberta and was the dominant political party until the 1921 election, with the first three provincial ...

in a 1992 by-election that had been called after the death of famous MLA Sheldon Chumir, defeating Rod Love, a well-known political consultant. He went on to be re-elected for two more terms in the 1993 and 1997 general elections, and retired from the legislature in 2001. On November 1, 2003 he was appointed as the first Information and Privacy Commissioner in

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Gary Dickson biography Saskatchewan Government

Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan media release Gary Dickson's appointment
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dickson, Gary Alberta Liberal Party MLAs Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta