Gerald Doucet
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Gerald J. Doucet | |
|---|---|
 Doucet, c. 1973 | |
| MLA for Richmond | |
| In office 1963–1974 | |
| Preceded by | Earl Urquhart |
| Succeeded by | Gaston LeBlanc |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 4, 1937 |
| Died | November 23, 2017 (aged 80) |
| Party | Progressive Conservative |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Gerald Joseph Doucet, QC (May 4, 1937 – November 23, 2017) was a Canadian politician and lobbyist. He represented the electoral district of Richmond in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1963 to 1974, as a Progressive Conservative.[1]
Born in Grand Étang, Nova Scotia in 1937,[2] Doucet graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in 1958, and went on to earn a law degree from Dalhousie University in 1961.[2]
Political career
Doucet was first elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 1963 general election, defeating Liberal leader Earl Urquhart by 83 votes in the Richmond riding.[3] He was re-elected in 1967[4] and 1970.[5] He served in the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Provincial Secretary,[6] and Minister of Education.[2] When appointed in 1964, Doucet was the first Acadian cabinet minister in the province's history.[7]
Doucet ran for leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia at the party's 1971 leadership convention,[8] finishing second to John Buchanan.[9]
After politics
Starting in 1984, the year he wrote Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Agreement: One Year Later, Doucet was a member of the successful but sometimes controversial Ottawa consulting firm Government Consultants International (GCI), along with Frank Moores, Francis Fox, and Gary Ouellet (The Insiders, by John Sawatsky, 1987; On The Take, by Stevie Cameron, 1994).
In 2004 Doucet published his biography, Acadian Footprints.
