Sylvia Brustad
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Sylvia Brustad (born December 19, 1966 in Elverum) is a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party. She is the current Minister of Health and Care Services in the second cabinet Stoltenberg.
Brustad graduated from high school in 1983, and attended the media courses at the folk high school in Ringsaker until 1985. She then worked as a journalist, among other publications she worked for LO-aktuelt, the news publication of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions.
Brustad was elected to a county council seat in Hedmark following the local elections of 1987. In the 1989 elections she was elected to a seat in the Norwegian Parliament, and left county politics
In cabinet Jagland which held office between 1996 and 1997 she was Minister for Children and Family Affairs. She was later Minister for Local Government and Regional Development in the first cabinet Stoltenberg between 2000 and 2001. Following the electoral victory of the 2005 elections, Brustad became Minister of Health and Care Services in the second cabinet Stoltenberg.
Brustad became known for her role as Minister for Child and Family Affairs when a law restricting the opening hours of shops on Sundays, holidays and after nine in the evening was passed. Only stores smaller than 100 square metres were allowed to remain open, such shops were somewhat disparagingly nicknamed "Brustadbuer" ("Brustad corner stores"), until the law was quietly repealed in 2003.[1] Brustad herself claimed that she had not personally advocated the law, but that she was required to follow through on a decision within the Labour Party. [2]
[edit] References
- Sylvia Brustad biography at Stortinget.no (Norwegian)
- ^ Ingen har merket at Brustadbua forsvant (Nobody noticed that the Brustadbu disapperared, onlinmagasinet.no, published June 11 2003
- ^ Brustad angrer "Brustad-bua" (Brustad regrets the Brustadbua) Aftenposten July 15, 2002
| Preceded by Grete Berget |
Norwegian Minister of Children and Families 1997–2000 |
Succeeded by Valgerd Svarstad Haugland |
| Preceded by Odd Roger Enoksen |
Norwegian Minister of Local Government and Regional Development 2000–2001 |
Succeeded by Erna Solberg |
| Preceded by Ansgar Gabrielsen |
Norwegian Minister of Health and Care Services 2005 – present |
Incumbent |
