Kenneth Leif Rostad (born September 7, 1941) is a former politician from
Alberta
Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ...
, Canada. He served in the
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
The Legislative Assembly of Alberta is the deliberative assembly of the province of Alberta, Canada. It sits in the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton. Since 2012 the Legislative Assembly has had 87 members, elected first past the post f ...
from 1986 to 1997. He held several cabinet portfolios in the Alberta provincial government.
Political career
Rostad was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in the
1986 general election. He defeated four other candidates, including
Western Canada Concept leader
Jack Ramsay, in the electoral district of
Camrose.
He was appointed Solicitor General by Premier
Don Getty and held that post until September 8, 1988. He was then appointed Attorney General.
Rostad ran for re-election in the
1989 general election. He defeated two other candidates by a large margin.
When
Ralph Klein
Ralph Philip Klein (November 1, 1942 – March 29, 2013) was a Canadian politician and journalist who served as the 12th premier of Alberta and leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta from 1992 until his retirement in 2 ...
became Premier, Rostad was left out of cabinet. In 1993 the Camrose electoral district was abolished due to redistribution, and Rostad ran for re-election in the new
Wetaskiwin-Camrose electoral district in the
1993 general election. He won by a comfortable margin over three other candidates.
After the election Premier Klein reappointed Rostad Attorney General, as the sitting minister,
Dick Fowler, had been defeated at the polls. He served in that post until September 15, 1994, when he was appointed Minister of Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs. He held that post until his retirement at dissolution of the Alberta Legislature in 1997.
References
External links
Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
1941 births
Living people
Members of the Executive Council of Alberta
People from Yorkton
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs
20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
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