Kevin Arseneau

About Kevin Arseneau

Kevin Arseneau has been the MLA for Kent North since 2018, when he made history being the first Acadian elected under the Green Party banner in New Brunswick and the first Francophone elected Green in North America.  He was re-elected in 2020 and became co-deputy leader of the NB Green Party in 2023.. 

Kevin believes that the main purpose of politics should be to bring people together, not divide them. And he has worked tirelessly over the past five years to bring the voices of the people of Kent North to the floor of the Legislature.  He is a champion of workers rights, rural rights, agriculture, food sovereignty, public transportation, and fiscal transparency.

Kevin is a farmer and member of the Ferme Terre Partagée workers’ cooperative, a farm that produces organic fruit and vegetables and raises animals humanely, and received an award in 2018 from RDÉE Canada (Réseau de développement économique et d’employabilité) in the young entrepreneur category. He is a talented storyteller and musician who has given hundreds of performances in New Brunswick, elsewhere in Canada, and in Europe. He has also taught at École W.-F.-Boisvert, in Rogersville, and contributed to implementing a philosophy program for children in kindergarten to Grade 4 classes, in cooperation with the Université de Moncton.

Prior to being elected as an MLA, Kevin chaired the Rogersville Local Service District Advisory Committee and was President of the Société de l’Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick (SANB). He has served on the boards of the Kent Regional Service Commission, the Société nationale de l’Acadie (SNA), the Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada (FCFA), and the Rogersville Cooperative. He was President of the Fédération des étudiants et étudiantes du Centre universitaire de Moncton (FEECUM) and served on the Équiterre family farmers network follow-up committee.

Kevin holds a degree in education from Université de Moncton with a focus on geography and history, and a diploma in adventure tourism from Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles. He lives on Pleasant Ridge Road in Rogersville with his wife, Rébeka Frazer-Chiasson, and their children, Hugo and Aube. Passionate about rural life, agriculture, and philosophy, Kevin is deeply committed to his community and its future.