Shane Getson (born in 1973) is a Canadian politician who was elected in the

2019 Alberta general election The 2019 Alberta general election was held on April 16, 2019, to elect 87 members to the 30th Alberta Legislature. In its first general election contest, the Jason Kenney-led United Conservative Party (UCP) won 54.88% of the popular vote and 63 ...

to 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. The Legislative Assembly currently has 87 members, elected first past the post from singl ...

representing the

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of Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland. Shane Getson was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland on April 16, 2019. He currently serves as deputy chair on the Standing Committee on the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund and is a Member of the Standing Committees on Resource Stewardship. Prior to serving with the Legislative Assembly, he spent 15 years in the construction industry, most recently in the position of a project director. Prior to this, he worked from 2008 to 2012 as senior manager of planning and execution for a private company in the energy sector. He attended the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), where he received a diploma in civil engineering technology in 1996. He and his wife have four children. Getson was the 917th Member to be sworn into the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. In September 2021, Getson criticized

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and their executives for not increasing capacity to handle the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. He said that the policy of vaccine passport was a distraction to keep accountability off of AHS. The timing of his comments was criticized by the opposition

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as being "ignorant and tone deaf", saying that the governing UCP were responsible for the capacity issues. The comments were also criticized by healthcare workers on social media, which prompted Getson to apologize, stating that he made the comments "in context of the management of the organization, and its processes, not the personnel that operate hesestations". Getson faced criticism and calls by the opposition for his removal from caucus after he and fellow UCP MLA Grant Hunter attended a convoy protest that blockaded the

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in January 2022.

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