Alberta United Conservative Party MLA Shane Getson announced his resignation on Oct. 26, a day before the legislature reconvened, citing personal and family reasons.
“I can no longer give the time and attention that I have over the last seven years,” Getson said in a written statement distributed to local newspapers and shared by the UCP caucus on Oct. 26. “Providing anything less would diminish both my responsibilities to the people I serve and to my family.”
Getson was elected in 2019 and reelected in 2023 in the mainly rural riding of Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland, whose boundary starts about 40 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.
In February, Getson declined to state his position on Alberta independence after the Republican Party of Alberta claimed he was one of 18 UCP MLAs who supported Alberta separating from Canada. …