Gary Dickson

{{BLP sources|date=June 2012}} '''Robert Gary Dickson''' is a lawyer and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta<ref>{{cite book|last=Stewart|first=David|title=Quasi-Democracy: Parties and Leadership Selection in Alberta|year=2001|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=9780774807913|url=https://archive.org/details/quasidemocracypa0000stew|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/quasidemocracypa0000stew/page/71 71]|quote=Gary Dickson MLA.|author2=Keith Archer|accessdate=16 July 2012}}</ref> and the first Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner.

Dickson was initially elected as a member of the Alberta Liberal Party in a 1992 by-election that had been called after the death of famous MLA Sheldon Chumir, defeating Rod Love, a well-known political consultant. He went on to be re-elected for two more terms in the 1993 and 1997 general elections, and retired from the legislature in 2001.

On November 1, 2003 he was appointed as the first Information and Privacy Commissioner in Saskatchewan.

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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060827042154/http://www.oipc.sk.ca/Web%20Site%20Documents/Website%20biog%20_G.%20Dickson_.pdf Gary Dickson biography Saskatchewan Government] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060721063400/http://www.legassembly.sk.ca/news/docs/Media%20release%20re%20Info%20Priv%20Comm1.pdf Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan media release Gary Dickson's appointment]

{{s-start}} {{succession box| before=Sheldon Chumir| title=MLA Calgary-Buffalo| years=1992-2001| after=Harvey Cenaiko }} {{s-end}}

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