Canada as seen through the Eyes of New Brunswick Editorial Cartoonists:
The Insight and Humour of Josh Beutel and Bill Hogan
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Introduction |
Editorial Cartoon Database |
Classroom Activities
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Josh Beutel, Telegraph Journal, 1979-10-10
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Reference number: MC2806-160
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Scope and Content
Doug Young questions Bob McCready quote to Ray Frenette despite McCready's poster being on the throphy wall with moose, hippo, and bear heads.
Title
McCready's Pelt
Caption
"Now why would he say a thing like that?"
Note
McCready raised the ire of the Liberals when he crossed the floor to become speaker of the House of Assembly.
Persons
Ray Frenette
- Born Joseph Raymond Frenette, Beresford, New Brunswick, April 16, 1935
- Liberal
- Liberal representative for Moncton East in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, 1974 to 1998
- Interim Liberal leader, 1983 to 1985 and October, 1997 to May, 1998
- Briefly served as NB Permier, 1997 to 1998
- Ran for leadership of NB Liberal Party twice, losing to Doug Young, then Frank McKenna
- Resigned from New Brunswick legislature, 1998
- Appointed director of Atomic Energy Canada by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, 1998-2001, then served as chair of AECL from 2001-2005.
Doug Young
- Born Meredith Douglas Young, September 20, 1940
- Liberal
- First elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, 1978
- Elected leader of the New Brunswick Liberal Party, 1982 (resigned within the year following 1982 provincial election considered disastrous for Liberals)
- Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture, 1987
- Left provincial politics to become a Liberal MP in the Canadian House of Commons, 1988
- Appointed Minister of Transport, 1993
- Privatized the Canadian National Railway
- Minister of Employment and Immigration, Minister of Labour, January, 1996
- Minister of National Defence and Minister of Veterans Affairs, October, 1996
- Defeated in 1997 election
- Since worked as a lobbyist