Elvy Robichaud (born April 3, 1951 in Tracadie-Sheila, New Brunswick) is a former

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. He last served in 2006 as the member of the

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for

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Education

Robichaud was educated at the

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where he received Bachelor of Physical Education,

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and

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degrees. He was a

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and later a hospital administrator through the 1980s and early 1990s.

Politics

While at the University of Moncton he was involved in student government and was elected to Tracadie

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in 1983 serving one three-year term. He was elected to the

in a

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in 1994. A Progressive Conservative, he was the first of his party to win a seat in the area since 1912. His party was struggling at the time and was a third party in the legislature. He was re-elected in

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when his party regained the status of official opposition under the leadership former federal cabinet minister Bernard Valcourt. When Valcourt resigned as leader in 1997, Robichaud served as interim leader until the election of Bernard Lord and as leader of the opposition from Valcourt's resignation until Lord won a seat in a by-election in 1998. Robichaud was again elected in

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and his party was victorious across the province. He was sworn into the cabinet as Minister of Education and served as education minister until 2001 when he was

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into the health portfolio. Robichaud was again re-elected in 2003 and continued in the cabinet. On January 31, 2006 he announced he would not run again and would step down from the cabinet the next time it was shuffled

He left the cabinet following the shuffle on February 14, 2006. For the 2006 New Brunswick general election, 2006 New Brunswick election he served as Conservative campaign chairman.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Robichaud, Elvy 1951 births Living people Université de Moncton alumni Acadian people Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick MLAs Members of the Executive Council of New Brunswick People from Gloucester County, New Brunswick New Brunswick municipal councillors 21st-century Canadian politicians