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Sonny Gallant
Stanley "Sonny" Gallant (born March 27, 1956) is a Canadian politician who served as interim leader of the Prince Edward Island Liberal Party from 2019 to 2022. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2007 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Evangeline-Miscouche and is a member of the Liberal Party. On February 15, 2017, Gallant was appointed to the Executive Council of Prince Edward Island The Executive Council of Prince Edward Island (informally and more commonly, the Cabinet of Prince Edward Island) is the cabinet of that Canadian province. Almost always made up of members of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, the C ... as Minister of Workforce and Advanced Learning. He was chosen interim leader of the Liberal Party on September 16, 2019. Electoral record References External links Biography at Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island Living people Peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative Assembly Of Prince Edward Island
The Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island (french: Assemblée législative de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard) is the sole chamber of the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island. The Legislative Assembly meets at Province House, which is located at the intersection of Richmond and Great George Streets in Charlottetown. Bills passed by the Assembly are given royal assent by the King of Canada in Right of Prince Edward Island, represented by the Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island. History As a colony, Prince Edward Island originally had a bicameral legislature founded in 1773 with the Legislative Council of Prince Edward Island serving as the upper house and the House of Assembly as the lower house. Together they composed the 1st General Assembly of the Island of Saint John. After the name of the colony changed in 1798, the body became known as the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island. In 1769, a British Order in Council established a new government on the Briti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miscouche, Prince Edward Island
Miscouche (2021 population: 992) is a municipality that holds List of municipalities in Prince Edward Island#Communities, community status in Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is located in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Prince County. Incorporated in 1957, Miscouche is located 10 kilometres west of the Summerside, Prince Edward Island, City of Summerside. Its name is derived from the Mi'kmaq language, Mi'kmaq term for "Little grassy island". Miscouche is east to the Evangeline Region, the province's largest francophone area comprising numerous Acadian settlements; 15% of Miscouche's population is considered francophone. Miscouche also serves as a service centre for some nearby rural communities, including Belmont, Central Lot 16, Southwest Lot 16, Grand River, St. Nicolas, and Linkletter. History The Second Acadian National Convention was held in Miscouche in 1884, and was attended by approximately 5,000 Acadian delegates from across the Maritimes. The Convention saw th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangeline-Miscouche
Evangeline-Miscouche is a provinces and territories of Canada, provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Evangeline-Miscouche is a francophone-majority riding. Members The riding has elected the following Members of the Legislative Assembly: Election results 2016 electoral reform plebiscite results References Evangeline-Miscouche information Prince Edward Island provincial electoral districts {{Canada-constituency-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfred Arsenault
Joseph Wilfred Arsenault (November 22, 1953 – July 27, 2011) was a political figure on Prince Edward Island, Canada. He represented Evangeline-Miscouche in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 2000 to 2007 as a Progressive Conservative member. He was born in St. Nicholas, Prince Edward Island, the son of Euclide Arsenault and Julie Ann Poirier. He was educated at the Institute of Canadian Bankers and was employed as an assistant bank manager before entering politics. In 1990, Arsenault married Emily Duffy. He was defeated by Sonny Gallant when he ran for reelection in 2007. Arsenault lived in Summerside from 1984 until 2003 when he moved to Miscouche. In 2007, Arsenault entered the race to become the Conservative candidate in the federal riding of Egmont, but lost to Gail Shea. On July 27, 2011, he died of cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. Thes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Mitchell (Prince Edward Island Politician)
Robert Mitchell (born 13 May 1963) is a Canadian politician. Mitchell was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2007 provincial election. He represented the electoral district of Charlottetown-Winsloe as a member of the Liberal Party until 2020. On May 20, 2015, Mitchell was appointed to the Executive Council of Prince Edward Island The Executive Council of Prince Edward Island (informally and more commonly, the Cabinet of Prince Edward Island) is the cabinet of that Canadian province. Almost always made up of members of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, th ... as Minister of Communities, Land and Environment. On January 10, 2018, Mitchell was moved to Minister of Health and Wellness in a cabinet shuffle. From May 8 to September 9, 2019, he served as interim leader of the Liberal Party on Prince Edward Island. On September 3, 2020, he stepped down from his political position as MLA for Charlottetown-Winsloe, after thirteen yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Cameron
Sharon Emily Cameron is a Canadians, Canadian politician and former civil servant, who served as the leader of the Prince Edward Island Liberal Party from 2022 Prince Edward Island Liberal Party leadership election, November 19, 2022 to April 6, 2023. Prior to her work in government, Cameron worked as an intermediate school principal in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. In 2010, Cameron was appointed deputy minister of social services and seniors in the government of Robert Ghiz, and in 2015 she was appointed deputy minister of workforce and advanced learning by Ghiz's successor, Wade MacLauchlan. Additionally, she served as CEO of the Workers Compensation Board and as an advisor to MacLauchlan on social policy. On September 22, 2022, following MacLauchlan's defeat in the 2019 Prince Edward Island general election, 2019 election and subsequent resignation as Liberal leader, she announced her 2022 Prince Edward Island Liberal Party leadership election, campaign to replace him. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Edward Island Liberal Party
The Prince Edward Island Liberal Party (officially the ''Prince Edward Island Liberal Association'') is a political party in the province of Prince Edward Island, Canada. The PEI Liberals are affiliated with the federal Liberal Party of Canada. History The party was created when PEI was a British colony by reformers who agitated for the system of responsible government. This was granted by the British crown to the colony in 1851. George Coles was its dominant figure in its first decades. While initially supportive of Canadian Confederation, Coles and the Liberals soured on the project, and it was not until 1873 that the island joined Canada as a means of relieving the PEI government's severe debts. The early party supported the abolition of school fees, and a resolution to the " Land Question" that divided the province. The Liberals supported land reform through the state acquisition of large landed estates. These estates were broken up and turned over to tenants and squatters. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Prince Edward Island General Election
The 2007 Prince Edward Island general election was held on May 28, 2007. It elected members of the Legislative Assembly of the province of Prince Edward Island, Canada. The incumbent Progressive Conservative government was defeated by the Liberal opposition after holding power for eleven years. The newly formed Green Party captured 3.04% of the vote or 4.44% in ridings they contested, beating out the New Democratic Party for third place. The New Democrats fell to 1.96% or 3.43% in ridings contested. They captured 3.06% of the vote, or 3.48% in the 24 of the 27 ridings they contested in the 2003 election. Results , - style="background:#ccc;" ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;", Party ! rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;", Party leader !rowspan="2", ! colspan="4" style="text-align:center;", Seats ! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;", Popular vote , - style="background:#ccc;" , style="text-align:center;", 2003 , style="text-align:center;", , style="tex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Executive Council Of Prince Edward Island
The Executive Council of Prince Edward Island (informally and more commonly, the Cabinet of Prince Edward Island) is the cabinet of that Canadian province. Almost always made up of members of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, the Cabinet is similar in structure and role to the Cabinet of Canada while being smaller in size. As federal and provincial responsibilities differ there are a number of different portfolios between the federal and provincial governments. The Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island, as representative of the King in Right of Prince Edward Island, heads the council, and is referred to as the Governor-in-Council. Other members of the Cabinet, who advise, or minister, the vice-regal, are selected by the Premier of Prince Edward Island and appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor. Most cabinet ministers are the head of a ministry, but this is not always the case. As at the federal level the most important Cabinet post after that of the leader i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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People From Prince County, Prince Edward Island
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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