Andy Scott (politician)

Infobox CanadianMP
honorific-prefix =The Honourable
name=Robert Andrew Keith Scott


term_start=1993
term_end=
predecessor= Bud Bird
birth_date= birth date and age |1955|3|16
birth_place= Barker's Point, New Brunswick
successor=
death_date=
death_place=
profession= public servant
party=Liberal
party colour=Liberal
residence=Fredericton, New Brunswick
riding=Fredericton
footnotes=
term_start2=
term_end2=
predecessor2=
successor2=
spouse= Denise (Cameron) Scott
religion=|

Robert Andrew "Andy" Keith Scott, PC, MP (born March 16, 1955 in Barker's Point, New Brunswick) is a Liberal Member of the Canadian Parliament representing Fredericton, New Brunswick. He was a member the Cabinet of Canada, most recently serving as the eighteenth Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (2004-2006).

In the late 1980s he was a senior civil servant with the provincial Liberal government of Frank McKenna. He ran for in the 1993 federal election, and won convincingly, becoming the first Liberal MP elected from Fredericton in 40 years.

He was re-elected in the 1997 election and was named Solicitor General of Canada. In 1998, New Democratic Party MP Dick Proctor said he overheard Scott on an airplane talking about several sensitive national matters, including the then-ongoing Vancouver Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) inquiry. Scott was alleged to have stated that several Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers (who had used pepper spray against protesters) would take the blame at the end of it all. He denied prejudging the outcome, but later resigned his post as Solicitor General.

In a bizarre incident in the fall of 2003, Scott was hospitalised after being physically assaulted by a constituent angry over his government's support for same sex marriage.

Scott returned to the Cabinet in December 2003, when he was named Minister of State for Infrastructure by Paul Martin. Following the 2004 federal election he was promoted to the position of Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

Scott has a wife, Denise Cameron Scott, and three children, Nathan, Nicholas and ,as of February 8th 2006,Noah.

On March 5, 2007, he announced that he would not seek reelection in the next federal election.

External links

* [http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=f7c12191-d662-4f47-a69a-2a2f99cecc87&Language=E&Section=FederalExperience Parliament Webpage]