Scott Sinclair (born September 12, 1984) is a Canadian politician and former hockey player from

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. He has been a member of the

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(MLA) for the riding of

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since 2023, having succeeded

Pat Rehn Pat Rehn (born 1965 or 1966) is a Canadian politician who was elected in the 2019 Alberta general election to represent the electoral district of Lesser Slave Lake in the 30th Alberta Legislature. Elected as a member of the United Conservative P ...

in that year's election. Sinclair is First Nation, and was the UCP’s only Indigenous candidate in the 2023 election. Having been elected as a United Conservative MLA, on March 7, 2025 Sinclair was removed from the UCP Caucus over comments made criticizing the budget. In 2025, along with Peter Guthrie, Sinclair announced plans to form a new political party in the name of the Progressive Conservatives.

Biography

Sinclair is the son of Gordon and Val Sinclair. He played major junior hockey in the

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(SJHL) and

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(AJHL) with the

Estevan Bruins The Estevan Bruins are a junior ice hockey team playing in the Junior "A" Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL). The team is based in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada, and plays at Affinity Place. They were founded in 1971, when a previous fran ...

Lloydminster Blazers The Lloydminster Bobcats are a Canadian junior A ice hockey team in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL). They play home games in the Lloydminster Centennial Civic Centre on the Saskatchewan side In the city's street system, "Avenues" run ...

and

Yorkton Terriers The Yorkton Terriers are a team in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) based in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. The team plays their home games in the Westland Insurance Arena, which has a seating capacity of 2,300. The Terriers won th ...

, winning a league championship in the 2004–05 season with Yorkton. He works in the auto glass business. He is Non-status First Nations, and one of three Indigenous MLAs elected in the 2023 election. Following his election, he became Parliamentary Secretary for Indigenous Policing.

Electoral history

2023 general election

2023 UCP Lesser Slave Lake nomination contest

February 25–26, 2023

References

Living people United Conservative Party MLAs First Nations politicians Canadian sportsperson-politicians Ice hockey people from Alberta Yorkton Terriers players Estevan Bruins (SJHL) players Lloydminster Blazers players 1984 births 21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta {{Alberta-MLA-stub