John Nilson is a retired

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. He was the member of the

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for the

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constituency from 1995 to 2016, representing the

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. A former lawyer with the Saskatchewan law firm Macpherson Leslie and Tyerman, he was first elected in the 1995 provincial election. He announced his retirement prior to the 2016 provincial election Nilson was educated at

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, at St. Olaf College in Minnesota and the

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. He was admitted to the British Columbia bar in 1978 and to the Saskatchewan bar in 1979. He was appointed as Minister of Justice and Attorney General on November 22, 1995, Minister of Crown Investments Corporation on September 30, 1999, Minister of Health on February 7, 2001, where he was Saskatchewan's longest serving health minister and then Minister of Environment on February 3, 2006. In the wake of the NDP's loss in the 2011 election and the resignation of leader

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, Nilson, who was re-elected, was declared interim leader of the party. He was succeeded by

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in the

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on March 9, 2013."Cam Broten elected as new leader of Saskatchewan NDP"
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'', March 9, 2013. Nilson announced his retirement in the fall of 2015, and continued to sit as an MLA until the Assembly was dissolved for the 2016 general election."Saskatchewan Legislature farewells retiring MLAs," ''Regina Leader-Post'', November 26, 2015.
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Electoral history

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References

External links

Saskatchewan New Democrats: Regina Lakeview
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