Shadow Cabinet Announced

Friday, 04 March 2011 16:27

Green Party Shadow Cabinet

Interim Green Party Leader Greta Doucet retains the role of Seniors advocate in the shadow cabinet.  «We have a team of passionate New Brunswick advocates who will bring forward ideas that will provide real solutions to the problems that New Brunswick faces.

In its very first election, 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.

Members of the shadow cabinet are ‘advocates’ rather than critics, because that will be their role – to advocate ideas to solve problems and to advocate ideas for change.

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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