Meet Senator Scott Tannas – SenCA+

August 6, 2025

Inspired by his father’s mid-career switch to provincial politics, Senator Scott Tannas decided to run for a seat in Canada’s Upper House when he turned 50 years old.

The entrepreneur put his name on the ballot for a Senate vacancy in Alberta — the only Canadian province to hold non-binding senatorial elections — in 2012. He focused his campaign on rural Alberta, stopping in more than 50 small towns across the province, and was appointed to the Red Chamber the next year.

Learn more about Senator Tannas’s work in the Senate below.

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