He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive from 1930 to 1955, and was a prominent cabinet minister in the governments of John Bracken, Stuart Garson and Douglas Campbell.
[2] The circumstances of Schultz's election were significant for the emerging alliance of Liberals and Progressives in the Manitoba legislature.
[2] Returned by acclamation in the 1941 provincial election, Schultz was transferred to the Ministry of Health on February 5, 1944,[2] by Stuart Garson, who had succeeded Bracken as Premier of Manitoba one year earlier.
Schultz easily defeated a candidate of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in the 1945 election, and was returned by acclamation again in 1949.
He was easily re-elected in the 1953 election, and stepped down from cabinet and the legislature on January 22, 1955[2] when he was appointed as a judge in the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba.