Paul Robichaud

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
Member of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly; for Lamèque-Shippagan-Miscou
	In office; June 7, 1999 – September 22, 2014
Preceded by	Jean-Camille DeGrâce
Succeeded by	Wilfred Roussel
Personal details
Born	May 6, 1964 (age 60); 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 he 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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