- Elizabeth Weir
:"For the fictional character starring in
Stargate Atlantis , seeElizabeth Weir (Stargate) ."Elizabeth Jane Weir (
February 20 1948 – ) is alawyer andpolitician in the Canadian Province ofNew Brunswick ,Canada . She was elected leader of theNew Democratic Party of New Brunswick in1988 and became the strongest opposition voice to the Liberal government, which held all 58 seats in theLegislative Assembly of New Brunswick .Born in
Belfast ,Northern Ireland , Weir was educated at theUniversity of Waterloo and theUniversity of Western Ontario . She has taught atYork University and theUniversity of New Brunswick . Weir was first elected to the legislature in 1991 in the riding ofSaint John South where she defeated the liberal John Mooney by only 78 votes [http://www.cbc.ca/nbvotes2006/riding/034/] . In 1995, the riding becameSaint John Harbour and she was re-elected in 1995, 1999 and 2003. During this time, she has been the sole New Democrat in the legislature.On
October 8 ,2004 , Weir announced that she would be stepping down from the leadership of the NDP but would stay on until a successor was chosen. She also pledged to run for re-election to the legislature in the next general election; however, she eventually reversed this pledge.Allison Brewer was chosen as her successor at a September 2005 leadership convention and Weir resigned her seat from the legislature onOctober 13 ,2005 to accept the appointment to be the firstpresident andCEO of the new New Brunswickcrown corporation theEnergy Efficiency and Conservation Agency .References
* [http://www.gnb.ca/legis/leglibbib/Special_Projects/mlas_english.pdf Woemen MLAs, New Brunswick Legislative Library]
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