Patrick Rouble is a

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politician, who represented the rural

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electoral district of Southern Lakes in the

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from 2002 to 2011. He served as a Cabinet minister in Yukon Premier

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's government from 2006 to 2011, and then briefly in the Cabinet of Premier

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until his retirement from territorial politics in 2011.

Political career

Rouble was elected as MLA for the newly created riding of Southern Lakes on November 4, 2002. He joined a majority government under leader Dennis Fentie, whose

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had just defeated the Liberals. Rouble served as a backbench MLA in his first term and Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, as well as Yukon Party Caucus Chair. He was re-elected in the 2006 Yukon election and this time elevated to Cabinet as Minister of Education. He was sworn in on October 28, 2006. He remained Minister of Education throughout his second term, serving both Premier Fentie and his successor,

. Rouble's mandate as Education minister was criticized by the media, with the ''Yukon News'' commenting that Rouble "made a fetish of hiring consultants to produce reports long on abstract gobbledegook and short on concrete goals." Rouble - and his department - was also criticized for his department's inability to demonstrated that the education of Yukon students had improved.Rouble unfit to be planning council chair
''Yukon News'' (John Thompson), December 13, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2017. As Minister of Education, he also oversaw and approved the decision to replace the F.H. Collins High School in

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, a decision that eventually went millions over budget and resulted in a half decade of delays. In Cabinet, Rouble also briefly held the portfolio overseeing the Yukon Public Service Commission from 2008 to 2010. He was appointed Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources in February 2010 when Yukon Party Cabinet minister

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temporarily quit the Yukon Party in protest over Premier Fentie's leadership. Rouble held the position of Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources until the end of that term. In 2011, Rouble announced that he would not seek re-election in the 2011 Yukon election, choosing instead to pursue a doctorate degree in education. His surprise departure led to media speculation that he was unhappy with the resulting change in the leadership within the Yukon Party. Rouble had refused to state who he would support in the leadership race to replace Dennis Fentie, but it was thought he harbored his own leadership ambitions.

Yukon Land Use Planning Council

After retiring from politics, Rouble was appointed by Premier Pasloski as the Chair of the Yukon Land Use Planning Council, the body under the Yukon's Umbrella Final Agreement responsible for making recommendations to the

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on land use planning. The appointment drew disdain from the oppositionOpen Letter re: appointment of former Yukon Party cabinet minister and Peel Land Use Plan opponent Patrick Rouble to the Yukon Land Use Planning Council
Yukon Liberal Party (November 26, 2013) and the media, since as Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, Rouble had worked to undermine the recommendations of the Council's Peel Watershed Commission after six years of public consultations. There was concern that Rouble prejudiced the independent mandate of the Council and could weaken government relations with First Nations. Both the ''Yukon News'' and members of the opposition called upon Rouble to recuse himself of the appointment, which he did not. The process surrounding the Peel Watershed Commission eventually led to a legal challenge at the Supreme Court of Canada in 2017.

Personal life

Rouble, born in Renfrew,

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and raised in

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, attended St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ontario. He holds a

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from

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and pursued his doctoral degree from the

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in education after quitting politics.Hon. Patrick Rouble
Yukon Legislative Assembly. Retrieved March 6, 2017. Rouble has lived in the Yukon since 1992 and resides with his wife in

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, Yukon. Prior to entering territorial politics, he served on the Marsh Lake Advisory Council and worked as a small business owner.

Electoral record

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References

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