Donald Arseneault

Donald Arseneault

MLA for Dalhousie-Restigouche East
In office 2003–2014
Preceded by	Dennis Furlong
Succeeded by	riding redistributed
MLA for Campbellton-Dalhousie
Incumbent
Assumed office 2014
Preceded by	first member
Personal details
Born	Dalhousie, New Brunswick
Political party	Liberal

Donald Arseneault (born in Dalhousie, New Brunswick) is a New Brunswick politician. He is the member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for the riding of Dalhousie-Restigouche East.

At the time one of the youngest members of the legislature, Arseneault worked in the civil service before being elected in the 2003 election. He was named to the opposition shadow cabinet following the election as critic for both the Office of Human Resources and the Department of Intergovernmental and International Relations. He was elected caucus chair in 2004 and was shuffled to be critic for tourism in early 2005.

He was re-elected in 2006 and his party formed the government and he became Minister of Natural Resources. He also chairs a cabinet committee on forestry issues consisting of fellow ministers Victor Boudreau, Greg Byrne and Jack Keir. On 12 November 2008, he became minister of post-secondary education, training and labour.^[1]

In the Brian Gallant government, which won the New Brunswick general election, 2014, he was named the Minister of Energy and Mines.^[2]

Sources

^ Derwin Gowan, Cabinet committee will tackle forestry issues, Telegraph-Journal. Page A2, October 12, 2006.

References

Cabinet Posts (2)
Provincial Government of Shawn Graham
Predecessor	Office	Successor
Ed Doherty	Minister of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour 2008–2010	Martine Coulombe
Keith Ashfield	Minister of Natural Resources 2006–2008	Wally Stiles
Special Cabinet Responsibilities
Predecessor	Title	Successor
Dale Graham	Deputy Premier of New Brunswick 2006–2010	Paul Robichaud
Roland Haché	Minister responsible for the Northern New Brunswick Initiative 2009–2010	none

Preceded by Scott Targett	Chair of the Liberal caucus 2004–2006	Succeeded by Rick Miles

Current members of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick

Liberal	Gallant Albert Ames Arseneault Boudreau Bourque Chiasson Collins Doherty Doucet Fraser Guitard Harris Harvey Horsman Kenny D. Landry F. Landry Bernard LeBlanc Bertrand LeBlanc M. LeBlanc LePage Melanson Rogers Roussel Rousselle

Progressive Conservative	Higgs Jeff Carr Jody Carr Crossman Dubé Fairgrieve Fitch Flemming Holder Keirstead Lynch B. Macdonald K. MacDonald Northrup Oliver Savoie Shephard Steeves Stewart Urquhart Wetmore Wilson

Green	Coon

58th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly

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