Rick Doucet
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The Honourable Rick Doucet MLA |
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| Member of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly for Fundy-The Isles-Saint John West Charlotte-The Isles (2006-2014) Charlotte (2003-2006) |
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Assumed office June 9, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Sheldon Lee |
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| Political party | Liberal |
Rick Doucet (born in Sussex, New Brunswick) is a New Brunswick businessman and politician. He currently represents the riding of Fundy-The Isles-Saint John West in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick. Rick lives in St. George with his wife and two children, Nicole and Jonathan.
Doucet has had a varied career working in the air industry both as a marketing and sales official with a commercial airline and later as a cargo pilot. He started his own series of businesses in 1989 eventually working simultaneously in the restaurant, photography and advertising industries.
A Liberal, he was a member of the opposition shadow cabinet. He was critic for the Department of Energy from his first election in June 2003 until becoming critic for Fisheries & Aquaculture in February, 2005.
Doucet received favourable media attention when, shortly following his appointment as Energy Critic, he toured the province to visit all of its power generation facilities at his own expense.
He was re-elected in the 2006 election following which he joined the cabinet. One October 3, 2006 he was sworn in as Minister of Fisheries under the Shawn Graham government. He maintained this role throughout all of the four years the Liberals were in government.
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