riding predecessor successor birth_place profession party birth_date spouse residence article_title term_end name
westlock -- st. paul david chatters tbd barrhead businessman , insurance agent conservative 13 february 1978 amel storseth st. paul brian storseth
 2015 brian s. storseth
brian storseth

brian s. storseth -lrb- born 1978 -rrb- is a businessman and conservative politician in alberta , canada .
he was elected mp for westlock -- st. paul , having defeated his next nearest opponent by a margin of over 53 % in the 2006 federal election and was re-elected in 2008 and 2011 before retiring in 2015 .
born in barrhead , alberta .
storseth studied political science at the university of alberta , and at the age of 24 was elected to town council .
he owned and operated his own business in st. paul , alberta and while at the university of alberta worked in the office of the speaker of the legislative assembly of alberta .
having served on the aboriginal affairs committee , brian storseth is now serving as the only alberta mp on the standing committee of agriculture and agri-food .
on september 30 , 2011 , during the 41st parliament , storseth introduced private member bill c-304 , titled `` an act to amend the canadian human rights act -lrb- protecting freedom -rrb- '' , repealing section 13 of the canadian human rights act which had prohibited `` the communication of hate messages by telephone or on the internet '' .
bill c-304 received second reading on february 15 , 2012 , and in a free vote on june 6 was passed , 153-146 , for third reading .
the federal electoral district of westlock-st paul is replaced under the new representation order effective in 2015 .
the largest part of it will be included in the new lakeland district , with other parts going to the districts of sturgeon river , fort mcmurray-cold lake and peace river-westlock .
brian storseth has announced his intention to not seek re-election in the newly-formed lakeland constituency at the 2015 general election .
