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Legislature Office
420 Legislature Building
10800 97 Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T5K 2B6
Phone: (780) 415-4815
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6, 160 Maclaurin Drive
Calgary, AB
Canada T3Z 3S4
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MLA for Foothills-Rocky View

Minister of Sustainable Resource Development

Biography for Honourable Ted Morton (PC)

Ted Morton was elected to his first term as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the constituency of Foothills-Rocky View on November 22, 2004. On December 15, 2006, he was sworn in as Minister of Sustainable Resource Development and appointed a member of the Agenda and Priorities Committee and the Cabinet Policy Committee on Resources and the Environment.

Dr. Morton obtained his bachelor of arts in political science from Colorado College in 1971, his master of arts in political science from the University of Toronto in 1975 and his PhD in political science from the University of Toronto in 1981.

He began his teaching career as an instructor at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1978 to 1981. From 1981 to 2004 he was a professor with the University of Calgary and a visiting professor with a number of institutions.

• Visiting adjunct professor, Colorado College (1986, 1989, 1991 and 1994)
• Visiting professor, Institute for American Universities, Aix-en-Provence, France (1987)
• Professeur invité, science politique, Université de Montréal (1993)
• Visiting professor, University of Connecticut (1997)
• Visiting research scholar, University of Melbourne (2002)
• Visiting resident scholar, Senate, Parliament of Australia (2002).

Dr. Morton also served as director of policy and research, office of the Leader of the Official Opposition, Parliament of Canada, in 2001.

In 1998 Dr. Morton was elected as a Senator-in-waiting in Alberta’s second-ever Senate election.

Dr. Morton has received several career awards and distinctions.

• Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Gama Mu, Colorado College (1971)
• Best Nonfiction Book of 1992, Alberta Writers’ Guild
• Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights (1995)
• Recognized in Maclean’s Guide to Canadian Universities (2001) as one of 20 most popular professors at the University of Calgary
• Runner-up, Donner book prize for best book on Canadian public policy published in 2000
• Visiting research scholar’s award, University of Melbourne

He has had numerous articles published and has edited, authored and co-authored the following books.

• Law, Politics and the Judicial Process in Canada, editor, University of Calgary Press, Third edition, 2002. Second edition, 1992. First edition, 1984
• The Charter Revolution and the Court Party with Rainer Knopff, Broadview Press, 2000
• Federalism and the Environment: Environmental Policymaking in Australia, Canada, and the United States, co-editor with Kenneth M. Holland and Brian Galligan. Greenwood Press, 1996
• Morgentaler v. Borowski: Abortion, The Charter and The Courts, McClelland & Stewart, 1992, and translated into braille by the National Institute for the Blind in 1995
• Pro-Choice v. Pro-Life: Abortion and the Courts in Canada, University of Oklahoma Press, 1992 (U.S. edition)
• Charter Politics with Rainer Knopff. Nelson Canada, 1992
• Federalism and the Charter: Leading Constitutional Decisions - A New Edition, editor and chapter introductions, Carleton University Press; with Peter Russell and Rainer Knopff, 1989

He and his wife, Patricia, have three children. In his spare time Dr. Morton enjoys hunting, fishing, gardening, golfing and skiing.