23 Facts About Jason Nixon

Jason Nixon is member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre.

Jason Nixon was first elected as a member of the Wildrose Party in 2015, and then he served on the negotiation team that created a framework for unity between the Wildrose Party and the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta.

Jason Nixon served as the Opposition House Leader in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Jason Nixon has previously served as the Wildrose opposition critic for Human Services and was a participant on the government's Ministerial Panel on Child Intervention.

From 2006 to 2011, Jason Nixon served as the executive director at The Mustard Seed, a non-profit organization founded by his father Pat Jason Nixon dedicated to helping the homeless.

Jason Nixon took online courses at both the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and Athabasca University.

Jason Nixon graduated from Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in 2011 with a management major, but he continued to take classes in Athabasca University.

In 2014, Jason Nixon was elected president of the Athabasca University Student Union.

In December 2008, the tribunal found that Jason Nixon Safety Consulting, and the other respondents had discriminated against the woman.

On February 6,2009, Jason Nixon was part of a group who shot a deer on Allison Gentry's family's property, the Sixty-One Ranch near Cremona, Alberta.

In June 2011, Jason Nixon pleaded guilty to a charge of poaching which resulted in a $500 fine.

In February 2011, Jason Nixon signed a one-year peace bond and paid a surety of $2000.

Jason Nixon agreed to stay 500 metres away from Gentry's property and have no contact with her for a year.

Charges were laid against Jason Nixon for uttering threats and obstructing an officer.

Jason Nixon was found not guilty of both charges in June 2011.

The assault charge involving Gentry was dropped a few months earlier, in February 2011, when Jason Nixon agreed to enter into a peace bond.

In 2019, United Conservative Party lawyers representing Jason Nixon who was then a newly elected MLA, succeeded in having the media blocked from releasing the video evidence from the 2011 court case to the public in an April 2019 ruling in a provincial court in Didsbury by Judge Graham.

From 2013 to 2015 Jason Nixon, who was then a Wildrose candidate in Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre and was taking online courses at Athabasca University, served as Athabasca University Students' Union president.

On May 13,2019, Jason Nixon sent a fundraising communique to UCP party supporters, asking them to make a "small donation" to support cuts to the corporate tax rate, and scrapping the provincial carbon tax.

Jason Nixon said that when he stated no one from the government used the earplugs, he was referring only to cabinet members.

Cooper found that the NDP "were 'rightly' offended by the earplugs incident"; however, the incident involving Jason Nixon did not "merit a point of privilege", which is a very serious matter.

Jason Nixon said on March 3,2020, that Alberta's provincial parks, recreation and protected areas were only generating $36 million annually while costing $86 million of tax payers dollars.

Jason Nixon denied laughing "at people that were in that situation"; he said he was laughing at a private joke shared between colleagues while the NDP MLA was speaking, not at the Opposition's comments.