Background
Dallas grew up in Central Alberta, spending much of his childhood in Innisfail.
Dallas grew up in Central Alberta, spending much of his childhood in Innisfail.
After high school, he took farm and ranch management at Olds College. Dallas then entered the printing and publishing industry where he remained for 25 years, spending nine of those years as publisher of the Red Deer Express. In 2004, Dallas became executive director of the Red Deer Chamber of Commerce.
Dallas was elected as Modern Language Association of Red Deer-South for the second time in the 2012 Alberta general election, with support from 44 per cent of the voters in the constituency.
From 2011 to 2014 he served as the Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations in Alberta. Prior to this role, he was appointed Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Finance and Enterprise, and Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Environment.
Prior to this role he was appointed Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Environment.
Dallas has also co-chaired the Climate-Change Central Board and the Overall Factors Task Team with the Alberta Competitiveness Initiative, was vice-chair of the Regulatory Enhancement Project Task force, was a member of the Regulatory Review Secretariat and has serrved on the Cabinet Policy Committee on Energy.
In addition to his regular duties as Modern Language Association, he previously served as a member of the Public Accounts Committee, the Standing Committee on the Economy, and the Standing Committee on Private Bills.