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Braille In Search Of Grail
Josh Beutel, Telegraph Journal, 1982-2-26 Reference number: MC2806-876

Scope and Content
The title along with the direction and the lack of power for the other candidates' vehicles suggest Doug Young carried in a litter is the most likely candidate against Joe Day, Ray Frenette and Allan Maher in the Liberal Leadership race.

Title
Braille In Search Of Grail

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.
Allan Maher
- Native of Campbellton, NB, businessman and resident of Dalhousie
-Elected 1978 as MLA for new riding of Dalhousie, re-elected in 1982, 1987 and 1991
- New Brunswick Minister of Finance, 1987 to 1995 under Frank McKenna
- Responsible for developing the province's policy on VLT's (video lottery terminals)
- Cut so-called "sin" taxes (taxes on alcohol and cigarettes) to help rectify cross-border shopping
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

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