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- ↑ "Minding the House: a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs (Volume 2), 1993-2017 (Cassandra Bernard & Sean McQuaid, Eds.)" (PDF). Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
- ↑ "PEI Votes 2003 Stanhope-East Royalty". CBC News. September 29, 2003. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
- ↑ "Prince Edward Island Cabinet Appointed". June 12, 2007. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
- ↑ "Ghiz shuffles cabinet". CBC News. January 13, 2010. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
- ↑ "PEI Votes 2011 York-Oyster Bed". CBC News. October 3, 2011. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
- ↑ "Veterans bounced from P.E.I. cabinet". CBC News. October 18, 2011. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
- ↑ "Ghiz announces new cabinet; Brown, Bertram lose portfolios". The Guardian. October 18, 2011. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
- ↑ "Robert Vessey takes on chief of staff role Monday". CBC News. February 20, 2015. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
- ↑ "Vessey to become Wade MacLauchlan's chief of staff". The Guardian . February 20, 2015. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
