Brian Gallant
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The Honourable Brian Gallant LL.M., MLA |
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| 33rd Premier of New Brunswick | |
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Assumed office October 7, 2014 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Lieutenant Governor |
Graydon Nicholas Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau |
| Preceded by | David Alward |
| Leader of the Opposition of New Brunswick | |
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In office April 30, 2013 – October 7, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Victor Boudreau |
| Succeeded by | Bruce Fitch |
| Leader of the New Brunswick Liberal Association | |
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Assumed office October 27, 2012 |
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| Preceded by |
Shawn Graham Victor Boudreau (interim) |
| Member of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly for Shediac Bay-Dieppe Kent (2013-2014) |
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Assumed office April 15, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Shawn Graham |
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April 27, 1982 Shediac Bridge, New Brunswick |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Occupation | Politician, Lawyer |
Brian Alexander Gallant (born April 27, 1982) is the 33rd and current Premier of New Brunswick since October 7, 2014. Of Acadian and Dutch descent, Gallant practised as a lawyer before winning the Liberal leadership in October 2012, securing the riding of Kent in a by-election on April 15, 2013, shortly followed by his swearing in as Leader of the Opposition. After the 2014 election, in which the Progressive Conservative government of David Alward was defeated, Gallant now represents the riding of Shediac Bay-Dieppe.
At age 32, he was the youngest Premier of New Brunswick to assume office. Currently, at age 34, Gallant is the youngest premier in Canada.
Gallant was born in Shediac Bridge. His Acadian father, Pierre, was the youngest of seven children, while his mother, Marilyn (born Scholten), was the child of Dutch immigrants who arrived in the 1950s. He also has two siblings, Melissa and Pierre. In his youth, he was educated at a variety of schools across New Brunswick; he ascribed his many moves to his parents' search for work, labouring at minimum wage jobs in convenience stores and fast food restaurants, eventually having to move the family into the small home of Gallant's grandparents. He ended up graduating from Polyvalente Louis-J.-Robichaud back in Shediac - his principal recalled telling Gallant he predicted he would one day be Premier, saying, "You have all the qualities of being a future premier here in New Brunswick." Gallant says his interest in politics started when, with nobody else offering, he became vice president of his grade 5 class, and by the end of his teenage years he decided he would pursue a political career.
In order to pay his way through university, he started and ran two small companies, eventually allowing him to graduate from the Université de Moncton with both a BA in Business Administration, and a Bachelor of Laws degree, later receiving a Master's in Law from McGill University. Whilst at Moncton, he was made president of the student federation. Afterwards, he practised corporate and commercial law with the firm Stewart McKelvey, and then became a partner at Veritas Law in Dieppe.
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