Paul Robichaud

Paul Robichaud
Deputy Premier of New Brunswick
In office
12 October 2010  7 October 2014
Premier David Alward
Preceded by Donald Arseneault
Succeeded by Stephen Horsman
Minister of Natural Resources
In office
23 October 2013  7 October 2014
Premier David Alward
Preceded by Bruce Northrup
Succeeded by Denis Landry
Minister of Economic Development
In office
12 October 2010  23 September 2013
Premier David Alward
Preceded by Victor Boudreau
Succeeded by Bruce Fitch
Minister of Transportation
In office
27 June 2003  3 October 2006
Premier Bernard Lord
Preceded by Percy Mockler
Succeeded by Denis Landry
Minister of Tourism and Parks
In office
9 October 2001  27 June 2003
Premier Bernard Lord
Preceded by Position Established
Succeeded by Joan MacAlpine-Stiles
Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture
In office
21 June 1999  9 October 2001
Premier Bernard Lord
Preceded by Danny Gay
Succeeded by Rodney Weston
MLA for Shippagan-Lamèque-Miscou
In office
7 June 1999  22 September 2014
Preceded by Jean-Camille DeGrâce
Succeeded by Wilfred Roussel
Personal details
Born 6 May 1964
Tracadie, New Brunswick
Political party Progressive Conservative

Paul Robichaud (born May 6, 1964 in Tracadie, New Brunswick) is a politician in the province of New Brunswick, Canada.

He studied at the Shippagan, New Brunswick campus of the University of Moncton. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party since 1985, he first ran for office in the 1995 but was defeated. He served from then until the next election as a Francophone organizer for the PC Party and ran again in 1999 when we was successful becoming the member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for Lamèque-Shippagan-Miscou. He was re-elected in 2003, 2006 and 2010.

He joined the cabinet first as Minister of Fisheries & Aquaculture and then became minister of the enlarged Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture. In a cabinet shuffle in 2001 he became Minister of Tourism & Parks a post he maintained until after the 2003 election when he took over the post of transportation.

He left the cabinet in 2006 as the Liberals won that year's election and formed the government.

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