Ethics in Action

Ted Morton has spent a lifetime in Alberta politics. Elected as a Reform Party senator-in-waiting in the 1998 Alberta Senate election, he was appointed Parliamentary Director of Policy and Research by Stockwell Day in 2001. He represented Foothills-Rocky View in the Legislative Assembly as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party from 2004 to 2012 and served as Minister of Finance, Minister of Energy, and Alberta Minister of Sustainable Resources. In 2006, Morton ran as a candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives to replace Ralph Klein, a campaign that very nearly succeeded.