Jean F. Dubé was a Progressive Conservative

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 member of the Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1997 to 2000.

A career businessman, he is the son of Fernand Dubé

Fernand Dubé

Fernand G. Dubé, QC was a Canadian lawyer and politician in the Province of New Brunswick.He graduated from the University of Ottawa in Ottawa and obtained a law degree from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton...

 who served for thirteen years in the Cabinet

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 of New Brunswick Premier

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 Richard Hatfield

Richard Hatfield

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Dubé was elected in the Madawaska—Restigouche

Madawaska—Restigouche

Madawaska—Restigouche is a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997...

 electoral district

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 in the 1997 general election. He served in the 36th Canadian Parliament

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 until he was defeated by Liberal

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 candidate Jeannot Castonguay

Jeannot Castonguay

Jeannot Castonguay was a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons from 2000 to 2004. He won the Madawaska—Restigouche electoral district in New Brunswick to become a member of the 37th Canadian Parliament. He is a career physician.Castonguay left political life in 2004 as he did not seek...

 in the 2000 election.

He won a 2001 New Brunswick provincial by-election in the Campbellton

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 provincial riding, but lost to Liberal Roy Boudreau

Roy Boudreau

Roy Boudreau, is a former teacher and a New Brunswick politician. He is the current member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for the riding of Campbellton-Restigouche Centre....

in the 2003 general provincial election.

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