Keith Donald Charles Scott ECA KC (born c. 1966) is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the mayor of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, and as an MLA and Cabinet minister for the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta.

On November 30, 2011, Scott announced he was running to be the MLA candidate with the Progressive Conservative party for the 2012 Alberta general election.

[3] The fatal collision was a breaking point for the community and triggered protests from the public and calls for action from the RMWB's municipal council.

[3][5] Scott and Mike Allen, PC MLA for Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo, promised completing the twinning of Highway 63 would be a top priority for them.

[9] Shayne Saskiw, the Wildrose MLA for Lac La Biche- St. Paul -Two Hills, and more than 100 doctors argued the extra delay would be life-threatening to patients being flown in from Northern Alberta during an emergency.

The Alberta government stationed ground ambulances at a $6.5-million, 3,600-square-metre hangar with a six-patient care area at the airport for patients that are not time-sensitive.

[11] Scott's term as MLA coincided with large growth in the Athabasca oil sands and a booming population in Fort McMurray.

The land included stretches west of the Timberlea neighbourhood, across the Clearwater River, and south of Abasand and Beacon Hill.

The land was scheduled to be sold to the RMWB in phases over a five to 15-year period, effectively doubling the size of Fort McMurray by 2030.

[12] Scott and Mayor Melissa Blake said securing the land for development was a major achievement for accommodating the growing population at the time.

[14] In September 2012, Scott told the Calgary Herald he was supporting the creation of a whistleblower policy for the Alberta legislature.

[17] Scott was appointed Minister of Innovation and Advanced Education by Premier Jim Prentice on September 15, 2014[18] and held the position until the 2015 Alberta general election.

Scott said the changes would provide $21 million in additional revenue for Alberta's postsecondary schools, and affect 8% of students in 1% of programs.

Prentice and Scott said this was to bring Alberta in line with spending in other provinces, and postsecondary schools would need to find new revenue sources to make up for the shortfall.

[20] In April 2015, Scott was criticized for cancelling a program that gave a $500 grant to any child in Alberta who opened a Registered Education Savings Plan.

[24] Allen and Scott said twinning Highway 63 was a complicated engineering project when it was announced in 2006, and blamed federal and provincial environmental caveats for the delays.