Denis Landry (born November 13, 1957) is the Mayor-elect of Hautes-Terre and a former MLA and

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in the

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, Canada. He was elected to the

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and re-elected in

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, 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2020. He was defeated in his first bid for re-election in

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Background

Landry was born in Val-Doucet, New Brunswick and was educated at the Memramcook Institute,

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and the

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. He was a logger for 17 years before working for the Canadian Paperworkers Union as local secretary-treasurer and later local president. He has served as President of the Acadian Peninsula Labour Council and president of the coalition against changes in unemployment insurance, a coalition composed of 15 different organizations. Landry later became a sales representative at a car dealership.

Politics

Landry was Minister of Justice in the government of

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from 2016 until the Liberals lost power in 2018. He served in other cabinet roles since beginning of the Gallant administration in 2014. Landry was chosen interim leader of the

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on February 12, 2019, following the resignation of

. Landry represented during the 57th Legislative Assembly the

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, though prior to the 2006 election the district was known simply as Centre-Péninsule. Landry won re-election to the 58th Legislative Assembly in the

Bathurst East-Nepisiguit-Saint-Isidore Bathurst East-Nepisiguit-Saint-Isidore (french: Bathurst-Est-Nepisiguit-Saint-Isidore) is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was first contested in the 2014 general election, and it was ...

riding. Landry was elected mayor of the new municipality of

Hautes-Terres Hautes-Terres is a town in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It was formed through the 2023 New Brunswick local governance reforms. History Hautes-Terres was incorporated on January 1, 2023 via the amalgamation of the former villages of ...

by acclamation in the 2022 New Brunswick municipal elections.

References

1957 births Living people Members of the Executive Council of New Brunswick New Brunswick Liberal Association MLAs People from Bathurst, New Brunswick People from Gloucester County, New Brunswick 21st-century Canadian politicians New Brunswick Liberal Association leaders Mayors of places in New Brunswick {{NewBrunswick-MLA-stub