Claudette Bradshaw (April 8, 1949 – March 26, 2022) was a Canadian politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe,

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. She was first elected on June 2, 1997, and served until the 2006 election. She was a member of the

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. Claudette Bradshaw was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for International Cooperation and Minister Responsible for the Francophonie on June 10, 1997. On November 23, 1998, she was appointed to cabinet as

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. After being re-elected in November 2000, she was re-appointed Minister of Labour on January 15, 2002, and again on December 12, 2003. From March 23, 1999, until July 20, 2004, she was the Federal Coordinator on Homelessness. After the

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shuffled the cabinet, and demoted Bradshaw to the position of

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(Human Resources Development). In November 2005, Bradshaw announced that she would not stand for re-election in the 2006 federal election. Following her retirement from federal politics, there was some speculation that she would run for the provincial Liberals in the next New Brunswick election in the riding of

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. Bradshaw later announced she was not interested in re-entering electoral politics but was appointed special advisor to leader

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for that election campaign. In 2009, she was appointed a member of the

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. In 2020, she was awarded the Human Rights Award of the Province of Brunswick. Bradshaw died on March 26, 2022, at the age of 72 from cancer.

Lifetime work

In 1974, Claudette Bradshaw founded the Moncton Headstart Early Family Intervention Center.

References

External links

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How'd They Vote?: Claudette Bradshaw's voting history and quotes
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