Tony Cornect is a

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from

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, who represented the

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of Port au Port in the

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from 2007 to 2015. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, and served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation and Minister of Service NL. He was defeated in the 2015 provincial election, in which he ran in the new district of Stephenville-Port au Port."Full list of winners in Newfoundland and Labrador election"

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, November 30, 2015. Cornect previously served as a town councillor and mayor in

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. He was also formerly a board member of '' Le Gaboteur'', the province's only

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newspaper. A fluently bilingual Franco-Newfoundlander, Cornect was the first MHA in the province ever to take his oath of office in French.

Electoral record

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, February 8, 2007
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References

External links

Tony Cornect's PC Party biography
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