Verlyn D. Olson is a former lawyer and a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 provincial politician serving in Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

. He has served as a member of the Alberta Legislature from 2008 to present.

Political career

Olson first ran for a seat to the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

 in the Crowfoot

Crowfoot (electoral district)

Crowfoot is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968.It is in the central part of the province, and is named in honour of Chief Crowfoot, leader of the Blackfoot First Nations in the 19th century.This electoral district...

 electoral district in the 2000 Canadian federal election

Canadian federal election, 2000

The 2000 Canadian federal election was held on November 27, 2000, to elect 301 Members of Parliament of the Canadian House of Commons of the 37th Parliament of Canada....

 under the federal Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

 banner. He was defeated by Kevin Sorenson

Kevin Sorenson

Kevin A. Sorenson is a Canadian politician.Sorenson is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Crowfoot since 2000. He has also been a member of the Canadian Alliance...

 in a landslide that also saw incumbent Jack Ramsay

Jack Ramsay (politician)

F.J. "Jack" Ramsay is a former Reform Party of Canada member of the Canadian House of Commons. Ramsay is a former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer.-Western Canada Concept:...

 get defeated.

Olson ran for seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 2008 provincial election and was elected to represent the electoral district

Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

 of Wetaskiwin-Camrose

Wetaskiwin-Camrose

Wetaskiwin-Camrose is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. It is one of 83 current district in the province mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting....

 in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Legislative Assembly of Alberta

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. He is a member of the provincial Progressive Conservatives

Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta

The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

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External links

• Alberta government members directory