Paul Delorey

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Paul Delorey
Paul Delorey

Incumbent
Assumed office 
1999
Preceded by first member

Political party non-partisan
consensus government
Occupation curler

Paul Delorey is a professional curler, a territorial level politician and current speaker in the Northwest Territories Legislature.

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[edit] Curling

Delorey is an avid and professional curler. He represented the NWT/Yukon at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championships in 1987. In 1994 Team Paul Delorey finished 5th place at the Canadian North Arctic Briar.[1]

He was also on Team Canada in the Strathcona Cup Championships in Scotland in 1998. He has coached junior curling for 22 years and is a fully qualified Level 2 coach. He also served as a Director on the NWT Curling Association Board for three years and as the President of the Hay River Curling Club for five years. Delorey is presently a member of the Governor General's Curling Club of Canada.

[edit] Politics

Delorey was elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the new electoral district of Hay River North for the 1999 Northwest Territories general election. He was re-elected to his second term by acclamation in the 2003 Northwest Territories general election. Delorey was elected to be the current Speaker of the Northwest Territories Legislature on June 1, 2004.[2] He was re-elected in the 2007 Northwest Territories general election.

[edit] References

  1. ^ 1994 Canadian North Arctic Briar - Team Delorey. Curlingzone. Retrieved on 2007-09-08.
  2. ^ History of Northwest Territories Speaker 1975-present. Northwest Territories Legislature. Retrieved on 2007-09-08.

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Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories
Preceded by
David Krutko
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories
2004-present
Succeeded by
Incumbent