13 Facts About Ken Cheveldayoff

Ken Cheveldayoff was born on April 1,1965 and is a Canadian provincial politician.

Ken Cheveldayoff is the Saskatchewan Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for the constituency of Saskatoon Willowgrove.

Ken Cheveldayoff was a parliamentary page in the House of Commons and won the Queen Elizabeth II scholarship for excellence in Parliamentary Studies.

Ken Cheveldayoff is the majority shareholder in a real estate company developing several Saskatoon properties.

Ten years after running federally, Ken Cheveldayoff turned to provincial politics with the Saskatchewan Party, a new conservative party that had formed in 1997.

Ken Cheveldayoff was re-elected in the 2007 general election, after which the Saskatchewan Party formed government for the first time, and Ken Cheveldayoff was named to Cabinet by Premier Brad Wall as Minister of Crown Corporations.

In 2012, Ken Cheveldayoff was appointed Minister of Environment, Responsible for SaskWater and the Water Security Agency.

In 2014, Ken Cheveldayoff was dropped from cabinet but was appointed Government House Leader.

In 2016, Ken Cheveldayoff returned to cabinet when he was named Minister of Parks, Culture, Sport and Minister responsible for the Public Service Commission.

At his launch, Ken Cheveldayoff stated that he would be willing to consider privatizing provincial crown corporations.

Ken Cheveldayoff was the only Saskatchewan Party candidate to win or retain a seat in either of the province's major urban centres, narrowly winning the Saskatoon Willowgrove seat over New Democratic Party challenger Alana Wakula by a margin of 136 votes.

Ken Cheveldayoff is the older brother of Kevin Ken Cheveldayoff, the general manager of the National Hockey League's Winnipeg Jets.

On May 20,2018, Ken Cheveldayoff was photographed trying to sell tickets outside a Jets home playoff game; he stated that he had bought the tickets for a friend, but when the friend could not use the tickets, he sold them on the street.