[1] Sindlinger was elected as a member for the district of Calgary-Buffalo in the 1979 for the Progressive Conservatives.
He disagreed with his party on matters relating to the Heritage Trust Fund and freedom of information.
In 1981 he sat as an Independent Conservative, until he founded the Alberta Reform Movement.
Sindlinger ended up losing his seat in a second-place result.
More recently Sindlinger has been promoting Senate Reform, he ran as an independent senator-in-waiting candidate in both the 1989 and 2004 elections.