Patrick Rouble

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Patrick Rouble
Minister of Education
In office
October 28, 2006 –November 5, 2011
Premier Dennis Fentie
Darrell Pasloski
Preceded by Elaine Taylor
Succeeded by Scott Kent
Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources
In office
February 4, 2010 –November 5, 2011
Premier Dennis Fentie
Darrell Pasloski
Preceded by Archie Lang
Succeeded by Brad Cathers
Minister of the Public Service Commission
In office
July 3, 2008 –February 4, 2010
Premier Dennis Fentie
Preceded by Glenn Hart
Succeeded by Elaine Taylor
MLA for Southern Lakes
In office
November 4, 2002 –October 11, 2011
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byConstituency dissolved
Personal details
Born Renfrew, Ontario
Political party Yukon Party
Residence Marsh Lake, Yukon
OccupationProprietor

Patrick Rouble is a Canadian politician, who represented the rural Yukon electoral district of Southern Lakes in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2011. He served as a Cabinet minister in Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie's government from 2006 to 2011, and then briefly in the Cabinet of Premier Darrell Pasloski until his retirement from territorial politics in 2011.

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Political career

Rouble was elected as MLA for the newly created riding of Southern Lakes on November 4, 2002. He joined a majority government under leader Dennis Fentie, whose Yukon Party had just defeated the Liberals. Rouble served as a backbench MLA in his first term and Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, as well as Yukon Party Caucus Chair. [1]

Southern Lakes was an electoral district in rural Yukon which returned a member to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon in Canada. It was one of the eight rural ridings in the Yukon at the time.

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He was re-elected in the 2006 Yukon election and this time elevated to Cabinet as Minister of Education. He was sworn in on October 28, 2006. He remained Minister of Education throughout his second term, serving both Premier Fentie and his successor, Darrell Pasloski. Rouble's mandate as Education minister was criticized by the media, with the Yukon News commenting that Rouble "made a fetish of hiring consultants to produce reports long on abstract gobbledegook and short on concrete goals." Rouble - and his department - was also criticized for his department's inability to demonstrated that the education of Yukon students had improved. [2] [3] As Minister of Education, he also oversaw and approved the decision to replace the F.H. Collins High School in Whitehorse, a decision that eventually went millions over budget and resulted in a half decade of delays. [4] [5] [6]

Darrell Pasloski Canadian politician

Darrell Thomas Pasloski is a territorial politician from Yukon, Canada, who was leader of the Yukon Party, and served as the eighth Premier of Yukon from 2011 to 2016. His party was defeated in the general election of November, 2016, and he lost his own seat. He was succeeded by Sandy Silver as Premier of Yukon on December 3, 2016.

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In Cabinet, Rouble also briefly held the portfolio overseeing the Yukon Public Service Commission from 2008 to 2010. He was appointed Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources in February 2010 when Yukon Party Cabinet minister Brad Cathers temporarily quit the Yukon Party in protest over Premier Fentie's leadership. [7] Rouble held the position of Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources until the end of that term.

Brad Cathers Canadian politician

Brad Cathers is a Canadian politician. He represents the electoral district of Lake Laberge in the Yukon Legislative Assembly on behalf of the Yukon Party. He is currently the longest-serving incumbent in the Assembly.

In 2011, Rouble announced that he would not seek re-election in the 2011 Yukon election, choosing instead to pursue a doctorate degree in education. [8] His surprise departure led to media speculation that he was unhappy with the resulting change in the leadership within the Yukon Party. [9] Rouble had refused to state who he would support in the leadership race to replace Dennis Fentie, but it was thought he harbored his own leadership ambitions. [10]

Yukon Land Use Planning Council

After retiring from politics, Rouble was appointed by Premier Pasloski as the Chair of the Yukon Land Use Planning Council, the body under the Yukon's Umbrella Final Agreement responsible for making recommendations to the Yukon Government on land use planning. [11] The appointment drew disdain from the opposition [12] and the media, since as Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, Rouble had worked to undermine the recommendations of the Council's Peel Watershed Commission after six years of public consultations. There was concern that Rouble prejudiced the independent mandate of the Council and could weaken government relations with First Nations. [13] Both the Yukon News and members of the opposition called upon Rouble to recuse himself of the appointment, which he did not. The process surrounding the Peel Watershed Commission eventually led to a legal challenge at the Supreme Court of Canada in 2017.

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Personal life

Rouble, born in Renfrew, Ontario and raised in Nepean, attended St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ontario. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia and pursued his doctoral degree from the University of Calgary in education after quitting politics. [14]

Rouble has lived in the Yukon since 1992 and resides with his wife in Marsh Lake, Yukon. Prior to entering territorial politics, he served on the Marsh Lake Advisory Council and worked as a small business owner. [15]

Electoral record

Yukon general election, 2006

Southern Lakes [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Yukon Party Patrick Rouble27642.4%+2.5%
  NDP Kevin Barr 23836.6%+3.2%
  Liberal Ethel Tizya13420.6%+2.0%
Total651100.0%–

Yukon general election, 2002

Southern Lakes [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Yukon Party Patrick Rouble22739.9%–
  NDP Rachael Lewis19033.4%–
  Liberal Manfred Janssen10618.6%–
  Independent Warren Braunberger417.2%–
Total569100.0%–

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References

  1. ↑ Legislative Reports (Yukon) Canadian Parliamentary Review (vol. 26, no.1), 2003.
  2. ↑ Public Schools and Advanced Education—Yukon Department of Education Office of the Auditor General of Canada (January 2009)
  3. ↑ Rouble unfit to be planning council chair Yukon News (John Thompson), December 13, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  4. ↑ Rouble unfit to be planning council chair Yukon News (John Thompson), December 13, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  5. ↑ FH Collins Secondary School in Whitehorse to be complete by fall CBC North, May 28, 2015.
  6. ↑ Total school costs soar to $54 million Whitehorse Star (Christopher Reynolds), December 18, 2014.
  7. ↑ Rouble unfit to be planning council chair Yukon News (John Thompson), December 13, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Yukon MLA Rouble leaving politics". CBC News. June 15, 2011.
  9. ↑ Rouble packs it in Yukon News (John Thompson), June 17, 2011. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  10. ↑ Cabinet, kingpin split on leadership pick Yukon News (John Thompson), May 20, 2011.
  11. ↑ Rouble unfit to be planning council chair Yukon News (John Thompson), December 13, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  12. ↑ Open Letter re: appointment of former Yukon Party cabinet minister and Peel Land Use Plan opponent Patrick Rouble to the Yukon Land Use Planning Council Yukon Liberal Party (November 26, 2013)
  13. ↑ Rouble unfit to be planning council chair Yukon News (John Thompson), December 13, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  14. ↑ Hon. Patrick Rouble Yukon Legislative Assembly. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  15. ↑ Hon. Patrick Rouble Yukon Legislative Assembly. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  16. ↑ The Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of the Yukon on the 2006 General Election Elections Yukon (January 15, 2007). Retrieved November 16, 2016
  17. ↑ The Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of the Yukon on the 2002 General Election Elections Yukon (March 3, 2003). Retrieved November 16, 2016
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