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Gail Shea, PC, MP (born April 6, 1959) is a Canadian politician, currently the Member of Parliament for Egmont. She was previously a member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 2000 to 2007, representing the electoral district of Tignish-DeBlois as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. As of September 10, 2011, Shea serves as the Minister of National Revenue, and has been acting as Minister of Fisheries and Oceans since October 17, 2012.
Political career
Minister of Community and Cultural Affairs
Shea served as Minister of Community and Cultural Affairs from 2000 to 2003, under the second administration of Premier Pat Binns. During this period Shea 's responsibilities included the Status of Women in the province, as well as providing oversight on ...
Fisheries Minister Gail Shea, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Premier Robert Ghiz and Senator Mike Duffy, left to right, chat during a visit to the wind farm in North Cape, P.E.I. , positive
Gail Shea accompanied by Laurie Hawn, Member of Parliament for Edmonton Centre, visited the Edmonton Children's Dance Theatre to promote the children’s arts tax credit. , positive
Egmont MP Gail Shea, and Dr. John Husnik, senior research scientist with Phyterra Yeast Inc., chat with research scientist Dr. Angela Riveroll. , positive
Shea said the budget, which the government released Thursday, takes a new approach to supporting entrepreneurs, innovators and researchers.
“As a world leader in post-secondary research with a highly skilled workforce, Canada has strong fundamentals for innovation,” she said.
Shea made the comments during a speech she gave to the Greater Charlottetown Chamber of Commerce Friday morning in response the budget.
Among the measures included in the budget was an increase to the eligibility age for old age security, cuts to the CBC, scrapping the penny, fewer public service jobs and a ...
Ottawa is not pushing the harmonized sales tax on Prince Edward Island, says National Revenue Minister Gail Shea.
P.E.I. is negotiating with Ottawa to bring in the HST, she said Monday, following the Kensington Chamber of Commerce luncheon, where she was guest speaker.
Shea was reacting to comments made by Premier Robert Ghiz a couple of weeks ago, after a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
"There was some misleading information that was out in the media, that the federal government was asking P.E.I. to harmonize. That is not the case," she said.
"This is a provincial matter, a ...
National Revenue Minister and Egmont MP Gail Shea confirmed Saturday she did use robocalls during the spring federal election campaign, but says they were legitimate.
Shea was addressing P.E.I. Progressive Conservative party members in Summerside over the weekend during the provincial party’s annual meeting when she brought up the robocall affair.
She shrugged the national controversy off as ‘silly rhetoric,’ but did take the opportunity to try to clear her name.
“In Ottawa, it’s very easy to get caught up in all the silly rhetoric that happens almost every day ...