Jason Dearborn

Jason Dearborn was a Saskatchewan Party MLA of the Saskatchewan Legislature.

Dearborn graduated from the University of Trinity College in the University of Toronto with a BA in 1994. He later returned to the same institution to graduate with an MDiv in 1996. In 2012 he was accepted for a diploma program in Global Strategic Strategy at the Said School of Business at Oxford University, UK.

He was elected in the riding of Kindersley in a by-election in 2002 and re-elected in the Saskatchewan General Election of 2003.

Prior to the 2007 general election, Dearborn announced he would not be seeking re-election. Bill Boyd, a founding member of the Saskatchewan Party and the constituency's previous MLA, was nominated by party members and won that election again for MLA in the constituency of Kindersley.

In 2007 Dearborn founder Brecknock Brewing Co. which produced beer for sale in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 2010 Brecknock was rolled into a small public entity, with full shareholders approval.

Since that time Dearborn has been International Territory Manager with Brandt Agricultural and Chief Operating Officer with Maxcrop Farm Canada Inc.

Incidents

He gained notoriety for an incident at a public meeting in February 2005. In jest, Dearborn "nominated" Lorne Calvert—at that time the Premier of Saskatchewan—to be shot for implementing a controversial plan for restructuring school divisions. Dearborn apologized for his remarks, and was stripped of his critic responsibilities for a period of time. Later he was returned to the Saskatchewan Party's shadow cabinet.

References

1. "Brecknock Brewing Set to Launch" Canadian Beer News, Feb 29, 2009

2. "Politician disciplined for saying Sask. premier should be shot" CBC News, March 9, 2005, retrieved June 20, 2006

3. "Saskatchewan Party Caucus Website", retrieved October 2, 2011