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Doug Horner is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was first elected in the 2001 provincial election and is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party and became the province's Minister of Agriculture in 2004 under Premier Ralph Klein. In 2006, when Ed Stelmach became premier, Horner was appointed Minister of Advanced Education and Technology.[1]
Horner comes from a political family; his grandfather, Ralph Horner, was a Senator for Saskatchewan, his father, Dr. Hugh Horner was a federal Member of Parliament under John Diefenbaker and then Alberta's agriculture minister and deputy premier in the 1970s while his uncles Jack Horner, Albert Horner and Norval Horner were also federal MPs.
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- ^ "Stelmach's team will shape province: Alberta's new cabinet", Calgary Herald, December 16, 2006
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