Michaela Frey, née Glasgo (born 1992/1993) is a Canadian politician elected in the

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to represent the

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in the

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. She was a member of the

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(UCP) caucus. In January 2019, Frey claimed on

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that her church would incur a $50,000 yearly bill due to Alberta's carbon tax; this was quickly disputed and found to be untrue. The pastor of the church later said that the true cost to the church would be $5,433 a year. In June 2020 she was appointed to be Chairman of the Alberta Firearms Advisory Committee by Premier

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. In this role she was in charge of advising the

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on its firearms policies. In 2022, she resigned her seat to allow the newly elected leader of the UCP and premier,

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, to

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a seat in the legislature.

References

1990s births Living people People from Medicine Hat United Conservative Party MLAs Women MLAs in Alberta 21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Year of birth uncertain 21st-century Canadian women politicians {{Alberta-MLA-stub