Joseph V. Anglin is an

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-born

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politician who lives in

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, Canada. He was the leader of the

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from 2008 until its dissolution in 2009. In the April

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, he was elected as a Member of the

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for

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. He was a member of the

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until he left its caucus on November 2, 2014. He sat as an independent until his defeat in the May

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Early life

Anglin was born in Massachusetts. He served in the

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and worked as a police officer in the 1970s. He moved to Canada and obtained Canadian citizenship in 1995. He served in the

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for six years. Anglin founded and acted as CEO of ASIG Inc., which operated as an international financial services firm, which specialized in trading derivatives, oil contracts, gas contracts and currencies. Anglin worked as a lineman for a public electric utility before going on to work for

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. He obtained a diploma in engineering and worked his way up into executive management. During his time with AT&T he taught fibre-optic transmission engineering at the Bell Labs training facilities in Chicago and served as the White House communications liaison for

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in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Political career

Advocacy and local politics

Anglin organized and led the Lavesta Area Group, an association of southern Alberta landowners opposed to the construction of a 500 kV electricity transmission line through their area, from 2006 to 2010. He served as chair of the Rimoka Housing Foundation from 2010 to 2012 and also served as a town councillor in

from 2010 until his election to the

. Anglin toured dozens of Albertan communities between 2009 and 2012, speaking out against the Electric Statutes Amendment Act (Bill 50), which granted cabinet power to approve major power lines as critical infrastructure without a public hearing and needs assessment by the Alberta Utilities Commission. In response to public criticism of the Act, the government revoked Cabinet's ability to approve critical transmission projects without a needs assessment in the fall of 2012, but the amendment did not affect the four transmission projects that were approved by cabinet under Bill 50 prior to the amendment. Anglin gained wide public attention in Alberta after he exposed the Energy and Utilities Board for spying on people who opposed power lines being put through their land.

Leader of the Alberta Greens

Anglin ran for the Alberta Green Party in the Lacombe-Ponoka electoral district in the

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. He finished second to incumbent

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. Anglin became interim leader of the Green Party in the fall of 2008. The validity of the meeting at which Anglin was elected was challenged by the party's previous leadership. Anglin presided over the dissolution of the party in July 2009. He attributed the party's failure to file required financial returns with Elections Alberta to a refusal by the previous executive to hand over necessary documentation. David Crowe, the previous CFO for the party, has denied Anglin's allegation, and has provided documentation of what he made available to the party and when, indicating that all needed documentation was made available in a timely manner.

Member of the Legislative Assembly

In 2012, Anglin became a candidate for the

for the riding of Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, which he won in the 2012 general election. Anglin left the Wildrose Party on November 2, 2014, to sit as an independent. In January 2015, he announced that he would seek the Progressive Conservative nomination in his riding. Anglin's candidacy was rejected by the Progressive Conservatives, with the party indicating that allowing his candidacy would not have been in the 'best interests of the party' Anglin opted to run as an

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in his riding, where he finished fourth. In 2018, Anglin announced his intention to run under the Freedom Conservative banner in the upcoming election. but then ran for the

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. He later joined the Alberta Party. In 2025, Anglin was a guest speaker at a event hosted by the Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin NDP Constituency Association in conjunction with the

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Rural Caucus. He also hosted a series of virtual sessions with the Alberta NDP Rural Caucus called "Alberta’s Failed Electricity Deregulation and How to Fix It."

Electoral results

2019 general election

2015 general election

2012 general election

2008 general election

References

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