| Rosemary Godin | |
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| MLA for Sackville-Beaver Bank | |
| In office 1998–1999 |
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| Preceded by | Bill MacDonald |
| Succeeded by | Barry Barnet |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Barrie, Ontario |
| Political party | NDP |
| Occupation | She was a newspaper journalist before being elected and is now a United Church minister |
Rosemary Godin is a former Canadian politician and current writer and clergyperson. She was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 1998 provincial election. She represented the electoral district of Sackville-Beaver Bank as a member of the New Democratic Party of Nova Scotia (NDP). She served for one term before she was defeated in the 1999 election.
Following her defeat, she became disillusioned with the NDP and left the party.[1] In the 2003 election, she ran as a Liberal in the provincial riding of Dartmouth North[2] and lost to incumbent NDP Jerry Pye.
Godin is a graduate of Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario with a degree in Communication Arts and a graduate of McMaster University in Hamilton with a BA in English. A long-time advocate for single parents and the poor, she entered the Atlantic School of Theology in 2004 to study theology; she received an M.Div and was ordained by the United Church of Canada in 2009.
Godin continues to write for newspapers and magazines and is a full-time ordained clergy with the United Church of Canada in Southwestern Ontario.