Geoffrey Curtis MacLellan is a Canadian politician in the

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Political career

He was elected to the

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in a

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on June 22, 2010, and represented the electoral district of

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as a Liberal until his retirement from politics in 2021. MacLellan was re-elected in the 2013 election. On October 22, 2013, MacLellan was appointed to the

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where he served as Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal as well as Minister responsible for the Sydney Tar Ponds Agency and Minister responsible for the Sydney Steel Corporation Act. He was re-elected in the 2017 election. On June 15, 2017, Premier

Stephen McNeil Stephen McNeil (born November 10, 1964) is a Canadian politician who served as the 28th premier of Nova Scotia, from 2013 to 2021. He also represented the riding of Annapolis in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2003 to 2021 and was the ...

shuffled his cabinet, moving MacLellan to Minister of Business, Minister of Energy, Minister of Trade, and Minister of Service Nova Scotia. On July 5, 2018, MacLellan lost his position as Minister of Energy in a cabinet shuffle, but retained the other portfolios he had prior to the shuffle. On February 4, 2021, MacLellan announced that he would not seek re-election.

Electoral record

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References

External links

Members of the Nova Scotia Legislative AssemblyLiberal caucus profile
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