- Shawn Murphy
:"For the
American football player seeShawn Murphy (American football) ; see also people namedShaun Murphy ."Infobox CanadianMP
honorific-prefix =The Honourable
name=Shawn Murphy
term_start=2000
term_end=
predecessor=George Proud
birth_date= birth date and age |1951|7|27
birth_place=Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
spouse= Yvette (Comeau) Murphy
death_date=
death_place=
profession= attorney
party=Liberal
party colour=Liberal
residence=Charlottetown
riding=Charlottetown
footnotes=
term_start2=
term_end2=
predecessor2=
successor2=
religion=|Shawn Murphy, PC, MP, QC (born
July 27 ,1951 inCharlottetown, Prince Edward Island ) is a Canadian politician.Murphy attended the
University of Prince Edward Island , and later theUniversity of New Brunswick Faculty of Law , graduating with a law degree in 1976. He returned toPrince Edward Island and joined a local law practice, working alongside future PremierJoe Ghiz . In 1997, he was made aQueen's Counsel . Murphy is married and has three adult children.Murphy is a current member of the
Liberal Party of Canada in theCanadian House of Commons , representing the riding of Charlottetown since the election of 2000. During the Martin government, he served asParliamentary Secretary to theMinister of Fisheries and Oceans with special emphasis on the Oceans Action Plan.He was re-elected with nearly 50% of the vote in the 2004 federal election.Despite rumours of his vulnerability in the 2006 federal election, Murphy was reelected with slightly more than 50% of the vote. With the Liberals now in opposition, Murphy became the chairman of the
Public Accounts Committee .Controversy
On
March 3 ,2008 , Murphy made a formal apology in the House of Commons with regards to comments made the preceding Friday about the former Progressive Conservative Prime MinisterBrian Mulroney . Murphy shouted "Let's get this Mulroney before the courts as soon as possible and hang him high! ... We've got to get Mulroney. Put a noose on his head! Put a noose on his head!" [http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2008/03/03/murphy-noose.html accessedMarch 5 ,2008 ] The remarks interrupted comments by Conservative memberEd Fast , with whom he shares a table and microphone. In his apology, Murphy stated that his comments were "... wrong, improper, inappropriate and extremely unparliamentarian."Electoral Record
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style="width: 130px" |LiberalShawn Murphy
align="right"|9,586
align="right"|50.16
align="right"|+0.76
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ConservativeTom DeBlois
align="right"|6,524
align="right"|34.14
align="right"|+6.54New Democratic Party Brian Pollard
align="right"|2,126
align="right"|11.12
align="right"|-7.28
GreenDavid Daughton
align="right"|586
align="right"|3.07
align="right"|-1.03
MarijuanaAndrew J. Chisholm
align="right"|193
align="right"|1.01
align="right"
Christian Heritage
Baird Judson
align="right"|97
align="right"|0.51
align="right"|-0.09
- bgcolor="white"!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"|19,112!align="right"
!align="right"-
style="width: 130px" |LiberalShawn Murphy
align="right"|9,175
align="right"|49.4
align="right"|+6.8
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ConservativeDarren Peters
align="right"|5,121
align="right"|27.6
align="right"|-9.8New Democratic Party Dody Crane
align="right"|3,428
align="right"|18.4
align="right"|-2.9
GreenWill McFadden
align="right"|760
align="right"|4.1
align="right"|+4.1
Christian Heritage
Baird Judson
align="right"|105
align="right"|0.6
align="right"|+0.3
- bgcolor="white"!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"|18,589!align="right"
!align="right"-
style="width: 130px" |LiberalShawn Murphy
align="right"|8,277
align="right"
align="right"
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ConservativeDarren Peters
align="right"|6,039
align="right"
align="right"New Democratic Party Dody Crane
align="right"|4,328
align="right"
align="right"Canadian Alliance Gerry Stewart
align="right"|1,005
align="right"
align="right"
Natural Law
Peter Cameron
align="right"|92
align="right"
align="right"
Christian Heritage
Baird Judson
align="right"|58
align="right"
align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"|19,799!align="right"
!align="right"Notes
External links
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?Language=E&query=17762&s=M&md=1 Federal Political Biography from the Library of Parliament]
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