About Shawn Graham
Shawn Michael Graham is a Canadian politician, who served as the 31st premier of New Brunswick from 2006 to 2010. He was elected leader of the New Brunswick Liberal Party in 2002 and became premier after his party captured a majority of seats in the 2006 election. After being elected, Graham initiated a number of changes to provincial policy especially in the areas of health care, education and energy. His party was defeated in the New Brunswick provincial election held September 27, 2010, and Graham resigned as Liberal leader on November 9, 2010. Shawn Graham was born the year after his father's first election as MLA for Kent County, New Brunswick. Graham and the Liberals were criticized for this and, for the first time in over 2 years, in June 2006 the PCs regained the lead in opinion polls and Lord took a double-digit lead in preference for Premier. This created some controversy and Graham's Liberals held up some business in the House as a procedural stalemate ensued for some weeks. His strategy was to focus heavily on policy, and his party introduced a record number of pieces of legislation for an opposition party.
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