Career
He served as cabinet minister in the government of Alberta serving various portfolios from 1982 to 1992. He held as seat in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as an Modern Language Association in the governing Progressive Conservative caucus from 1979 to 1993. Fjordbotten first ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as a Progressive Conservative candidate for the 1979 Alberta general election.
He was re-elected in the 1982 Alberta general election winning a landslide and defeating five other candidates.
He would serve that post for most of his second term in office. He would become Minister of Tourism after Don Getty became premier of the province.
He held his cabinet post for less than a year after the election before being promoted to be the new Minister of Forestry, Lands and Wildlife. He retained that cabinet post after he was re-elected in the 1989 Alberta general election.
When Ralph Klein became premier in 1992 Fjordbotten was not part of the new cabinet.
He did not run again for re-election when the assembly was dissolved in 1993.
