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| Name | Lyle Oberg |
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Brooks, Alberta , Canada |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
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January 06, 1950
(74 years)
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| Info | Dr. Lyle Oberg is an Albertan politician and current member of the Legislative Assembly.
A physician by trade, Oberg was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as an Progressive Conservative in 1993. He was first appointed to the Alberta Cabinet in 1997 and served numerous posts. During his term as an executive councillor, he was styled "the Honourable".
Dr. Oberg was appointed Minister of Family and Social Services in March 1997. Over the next two years, he oversaw the move of children’s services and services for persons with developmental disabilities to community-based delivery. He launched a western Canadian initiative to address Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and implemented an interprovincial strategy to share resources and develop new and better approaches for addressing FAS. As part of the Alberta Children’s Agenda, he introduced the Alberta Child Health Benefit Program and played a key role in the development of the Protection of Children Involved in Prostitution Act.
In May 1999, Dr. Oberg was appointed Minister of Learning, a post he held until November 2004. During that time, he also served as a member of Treasury Board and as the Minister responsible for immigration. Dr. Oberg was an active member of the Canadian Ministers of Education and led the Canadian delegation to an International Group of Eight (G8) Education Ministers meeting. He oversaw the creation of Alberta’s Commission on Learning and implemented many of its recommendations, including the reduction of provincial class sizes. He began the second language initiative in Alberta schools to give students an edge in the world marketplace and initiated the development of the daily physical activity program to improve the health of Alberta students.
Following his re-election in the November 22, 2004, election, Dr. Oberg was appointed Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation.
On March 22, 2006, Oberg was removed from the Progressive Conservative caucus and stripped from his ministerial position after making comments at a Strathmore-Brooks Constituency Association annual general meeting urging the membership not to support Alberta Premier Ralph Klein in a crucial leadership vote at the March 2006 AGM of the party. Before this, Oberg was considering resigning his ministerial portfolio in June 2006 as per Premier Klein's directive regarding leadership candidates.
Oberg is currently running for the leadership of the Progressive Consevative Party. He was re-admitted to caucus on July 25, 2006. Oberg's expulsion from cabinet and caucus does not seem to have negatively affected his campaign. Recent polls have him in a close second place behind perceived front-runner, Jim Dinning.
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