He represented Wolseley in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1975 to 1981 as a Progressive Conservative and then independent member.
[1] He was first elected to the assembly in a by-election held on June 25, 1975, after former Liberal leader Izzy Asper resigned his seat.
[2] In September 1979, he was charged with conspiracy to import and traffic in marijuana as the result of drug seizures in May and July of that year.
[3] Wilson was expelled from the Progressive Conservative caucus on November 20, 1980, and subsequently sat as an independent member.
[1] In March 2011, Ian Jackson MacDonald, who had escaped police custody in June 1980, was returned to Canada by U.S. authorities.