Don MacIntyre


Donald Brian MacIntyre is a Canadian former politician who was elected in the 2015 Alberta general election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, where he represented the electoral district of Innisfail-Sylvan Lake until resigning on February 5, 2018 after being charged with sexual assault and "sexual interference".

Views on Climate Change

On January 2, 2017, MacIntyre — while speaking to the press — asserted that man made climate change is not the primary cause of the planet's warming. This is in conflict with the current scientific opinion on climate change, which asserts a 95% confidence that climate change is primarily caused by man.
The Alberta New Democratic Party - which holds a majority government in the legislature - responded by requesting that the Wildrose Party - the official opposition - remove Don MacIntyre from his position as energy critic. Leduc-Beaumont NDP MLA Shaye Anderson was quoted saying "It’s irresponsible to lend climate change-denying conspiracies the credibility of the office of the Official Opposition. Unless Jean agrees with what Mr. MacIntyre is saying, he must remove him from his position.".
The Wildrose Party responded by issuing a statement that "We get calls daily from Albertans living in NDP-held ridings furious that their MLAs are not listening to their opposition to the carbon tax. I suggest they spend their time listening to those concerns," - in reference to the 20 dollars per ton carbon tax put in place by the Alberta government.

Electoral history

2015 general election

Criminal history

MacIntyre resigned his seat as legislative representative for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake in February 2018, near the time he was charged with the sexual offenses; sexual assault and sexual interference, involving a girl under the age of 16. The actions occurred between five and ten times between 2010 and 2011, and during the trial MacIntyre claimed that his actions were done during a dark period of his life and part of Satan's plan. He also told his victim during the actions that "God had approved the abuse".
On January 11, 2019 MacIntyre pled guilty to sexual interference and was sentenced to three years in prison, while the charge of sexual assault was withdrawn.