Robert Gauvin
Robert Gauvin is a Canadian politician, the Member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for Shippagan-Lamèque-Miscou. He was first elected in the 2018 election as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick. He was appointed to the Executive Council of New Brunswick and served as the Deputy Premier, Minister of Tourism, Heritage, and Culture and Minister responsible for La Francophonie from November 9, 2018 to February 14, 2020.
On February 14, 2020, he resigned from cabinet and from caucus, sitting as an independent MLA. He cited Blaine Higgs' health reforms, including the nighttime closure of six hospital emergency rooms, as the reason for his resignation. In announcing his resignation, Gauvin called those reforms "an attack on rural New Brunswick."
Gauvin is the son of former New Brunswick MLA Jean Gauvin.
