Doug Young (politician)

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Meredith Douglas Young, PC (born September 20, 1940 in Tracadie, New Brunswick) is a Canadian politician both provincial and federal spanning two decades.

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Provincial politics

He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 1978 as a Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). He was elected leader of the New Brunswick Liberal Party in 1982, but resigned within a year of his rising to that post due to a poor showing in the 1982 provincial election. When the Liberals formed a government under Frank McKenna in 1987, Young served as Minister of Fisheries.

Federal politics

Young left provincial politics to run in the 1988 federal election for the Liberal Party of Canada, and was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP).

With the election of a Liberal government in the 1993 election, the new Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien, appointed Young to the Canadian cabinet as Minister of Transport. In that position, Young eliminated the Crow Rate which regulated the cost western farmers had to pay to transport their goods via rail, and privatized the Canadian National Railway.

In January 1996, he became Minister of Employment and Immigration (subsequently retitled Minister of Human Resources Development) and Minister of Labour. In October 1996, he was appointed Minister of National Defence and Minister of Veterans Affairs.

As Defence Minister, Young generated much criticism when, in 1997, he suspended the formal inquiry into the Somalia Affair in which Canadian troops had been accused of mistreating prisoners in Somalia in 1993.

In one of the chief upsets of the 1997 election, Young was defeated in his riding by Yvon Godin of the New Democratic Party. The Liberal government's changes to Unemployment Insurance were a key factor in his defeat because of the large number of seasonal workers in Young's riding. This was also a factor in the defeat of Young's Cabinet colleague and fellow Maritimer David Dingwall.

Since his defeat, Young has worked in Ottawa as a lobbyist. Despite his Liberal affiliations, Young supported the candidacy of Tom Long to lead the right-wing Canadian Alliance in that party's leadership election in 2000.

He supported Stéphane Dion for the leadership of the Liberal Party. [1]

Electoral record

1993 Canadian federal election : Acadie—Bathurst
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Liberal Doug Young 26,78266.35+14.60$45,888
Progressive Conservative Luce-Andrée Gauthier11,17527.69-15.04$53,402
New Democratic Kim Gallant2,4065.96+0.43$1,508
Total valid votes/expense limit 40,363 100.00$53,496
  Liberal holdSwing+14.8
1988 Canadian federal election : Gloucester
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Doug Young 20,25151.75+13.37
Progressive Conservative Jean Gauvin16,72142.73-12.39
New Democratic Serge Robichaud2,1635.53+0.40
Total valid votes39,135 100.00
  Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative.Swing+12.88

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  1. "Liberal Party of Canada". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
26th Ministry – Cabinet of Jean Chrétien
Cabinet posts (5)
PredecessorOfficeSuccessor
David Collenette Minister of National Defence
19961997
Art Eggleton
David Collenette Minister of Veterans Affairs
19961997
styled as
Minister of National Defence
Fred Mifflin
legislation enacted Minister of Human Resources Development
1996
Pierre Pettigrew
Lloyd Axworthy Minister of Employment and Immigration
1996
styled as
Minister of Human Resources Development
legislation enacted
Jean Corbeil Minister of Transport
19931996
David Anderson
Parliament of Canada
Preceded by Member of Parliament from Acadie—Bathurst
1988-1997
Succeeded by