Donald Arseneault is a New Brunswick

New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

 politician

Politician

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. He is the member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick

Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick

The Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick is located in Fredericton. It was established de jure when the colony was created in 1784, but only came in to session in 1786 following the first elections in late 1785. Until 1891, it was the lower house in a bicameral legislature when its upper house...

 for the riding of Dalhousie-Restigouche East.

One of the youngest members of the legislature, Arseneault worked in the civil service

Civil service

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 before being elected in the 2003 election

New Brunswick general election, 2003

The 35th New Brunswick general election was held on June 9, 2003, to elect 55 members to the 55th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada...

. He was named to the opposition shadow cabinet

Shadow Cabinet

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 following the election as critic for both the Office of Human Resources

Office of Human Resources (New Brunswick)

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 and the Department of Intergovernmental and International Relations. He was elected caucus chair in 2004 and was shuffled

Cabinet shuffle

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 to be critic for tourism in early 2005.

He was re-elected in 2006

New Brunswick general election, 2006

The 36th New Brunswick general election was held on September 18, 2006, to elect 55 members to the 56th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada....

 and his party formed the government and he became Minister of Natural Resources. He also chairs a cabinet committee

Executive Council of New Brunswick

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 on forestry issues consisting of fellow ministers Victor Boudreau, Greg Byrne and Jack Keir. On November 12, 2008, he became minister of post-secondary education, training and labour.

Sources

Derwin Gowan, Cabinet committee will tackle forestry issues, Telegraph-Journal

Telegraph-Journal

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. Page A2, October 12, 2006.