Ady was elected to the
Alberta Legislature in the
1986 Alberta general election. He won the electoral district of
Cardston by a comfortable margin to hold the district for the
Progressive Conservatives defeating three other candidates. He was re-elected to his second term in the
1989 Alberta general election. He defeated two other candidates in a landslide. Premier
Ralph Klein appointed Ady as the Minister of Advanced Education and Technology and Career Development in 1992, he held that post until he left office in 1997. Ady did not run for a fourth term and retired at dissolution of the Assembly in 1997. His daughter in law
Cindy Ady was the MLA for the electoral district of
Calgary Shaw from 2001 to 2012. Ady is a father of five children: Donald, Jack (Douglas), Lori, John, and Robert. ==Late life==