[3] Sapers held many portfolios in the Official Opposition including critic for Health, Advanced Education, Science and Technology and Finance.

He was one of three opposition members appointed by the Klein government to serve on the Select Committee studying privacy and access to information.

On March 19, 1996 Sapers along with Liberal leader Grant Mitchell were sued by a company called Hotel de Health.

[4] Sapers was well liked in his constituency and would win his second term in office a year after he cemented his reputation for protecting public healthcare in his dispute with Hotel de Health.1997 Alberta general election.

[7] His appointment was renewed on February 17, 2012, and continued into November 2016 when he resigned his position as the Correctional Investigator to take office with the Ontario government.