Canadian
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politician. He was elected to represent the
district
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Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly
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in a 2014 by-election; in the 2015 election, he was re-elected in the new district of St. George's-Humber. He is a member of the
Liberal Party
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.
Reid was raised in the community of Jeffrey's. Reid has taught at the Department of Political Science and the Faculty of Business at
Memorial University
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. Reid previously worked as a researcher under the leadership of
Roger Grimes
Roger D. Grimes (born May 2, 1950) is a Canadian politician from Newfoundland and Labrador. Grimes was born and raised in the central Newfoundland town of Grand Falls-Windsor.
Grimes is a former leader of the province's Liberal Party and was it ...
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Gerry Reid
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Yvonne Jones
Yvonne Jean Jones (born March 15, 1968) is a Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, who served in the House of Commons of Canada from 2013 to 2025. She represented the district of Labrador as a member of the Liberal Party caucus. On ...
, and
Dwight Ball
Dwight Ball (born 21 December 1957) is a Canadian politician who was the 13th premier of Newfoundland and Labrador from 14 December 2015, to 19 August 2020, and an MHA. He represented the electoral district of Humber Valley in the Newfoundlan ...
. From 2008 to 2010, he was a senior policy advisor to Liberal MP Siobhan Coady.
Reid was re-elected in the 2019 provincial election. On September 6, 2019, he was appointed acting Speaker of the House of Assembly following Perry Trimper re-entering cabinet. Reid was elected Speaker at the beginning of the fall 2019 session of the House of Assembly defeating Trimper. He was re-elected in the 2021 provincial election. He ran for re-election as Speaker at the beginning of the 50th General Assembly but was defeated by
NDP
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* Nondeterministic programming, a type of computer language
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