Madeleine "Mado" Dubé, is a New Brunswick

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 social worker and politician

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Dubé has a bachelor degree in social work from l'Université de Moncton

Université de Moncton

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 (UdeM) and worked for the New Brunswick government as a social worker prior to starting her own business focussing on human development. She also served as a part time lecturer at the Edmundston campus of UdeM.

She is currently a prominent cabinet minister in the New Brunswick as Minister of Health.

She was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick

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 in the 1999 provincial election

New Brunswick general election, 1999

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 and was re-elected in 2003

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, 2006

New Brunswick general election, 2006

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 and 2010. In her first term, she chaired the committee

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 on health care

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 and joined the cabinet immediately following her re-election first as Minister of Education

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 and then, on February 14, 2006 as Minister of Family and Community Services. After her election to a third term she served in the opposition. She has been elected as Progressive Conservative Caucus chairperson in the Fall of 2007. In September 2010, she was re-elected four times in a row to the New Brunswick Legislature with one of the largest majorities.

She is married with two children.