Barry Morishita is a Canadian politician who served as the leader of the Alberta Party from 2021 to 2023.

[3] Morishita's father was born in 1945 at the Tashme Incarceration Camp, where his family had been interred during World War II.

Before his entry into politics he owned and operated an auto part store along with some business partners.

[4] Morishita was first elected in Brooks city council in 1998 at the age of thirty.

[3] He was elected Mayor of Brooks in 2016 [5] and president of the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association in 2017.