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Shadow Cabinet Announced

Green Party Announces Shadow Cabinet

Green Party Leader Jack MacDougall announced his shadow cabinet today.  «I have appointed  a team of passionate New Brunswick advocates who will bring forward ideas that we expect the government to treat with all seriousness.  I am taking Premier Alward at his word, that he intends to engage the parties that did not elect members to the Legislative Assembly under our first-past-the post system, » said MacDougall.

In its very first election last fall, the New Brunswick Green Party received 5% of the vote in the 49 ridings in which it ran – the best showing for any provincial Green party in their first election.  Premier David Alward has appointed Professor Don Desserud to recommend how to incorporate non-elected parties into the political process between elections.

« We are calling the members of our shadow cabinet ‘advocates’ rather than critics, because that will be their role – to advocate ideas to solve problems and to advocate ideas for change, » said |MacDougall.

The Green Party’s Shadow Cabinet includes the following advocates :

• Health  – Jim Wolstenholme
• Sustainable Finance – Janice Harvey  & Jack MacDougall
• Municipal/Rural Governance – Tom Beckley
• Sustainable Energy – Roy MacMullin, Rick Roth (Renewables)
• Democratic Reform – Janice Harvey & Jack MacDougall
• Seniors – Greta Doucet
• Early Childhood and Education – Sharon Murphy-Flatt  
• Post-Secondary Education – Kathleen MacDougall
• Family Court and Legal Access – Sandra Burtt
• Social Justice – Ellen Comer,  Shaun Bartone (LGBT)
• Forests – Tegan Wong-Daugherty
• Agricuture and Food Security – Wayne Sabine and Stephanie Coburn
• Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation – Louise Comeau
• Economic Transition – Janice Harvey
• Ecological Sustainability – Jean-Louis Deveau
• Green Ethics – Louise Comeau
• Aboriginal Relations – Margaret Tusz-King

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