Bernadette Jordan, a former Liberal MP and member of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, has been appointed as Canada’s new Consul General in Boston.
Jordan lost his Nova Scotia seat in the 2021 election
Bernadette Jordan, a former Liberal MP and member of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, has been appointed as Canada’s new Consul General in Boston.
Jordan was first selected to represent South Shore St. Paul in 2015. Margarets will replace fellow former Nova Scotia Liberal MP Roger Kazner, who was appointed to the Senate in October.
Jordan became minister of regional economic development in early 2019, and Trudeau appointed her minister of fisheries, oceans and coast guard after his re-election in the fall.
Her tenure was punctuated by violent clashes on Nova Scotia’s south coast in the summer and fall of 2020 between commercial fishermen and Indigenous fishermen attempting to enforce their treaty rights to harvest lobster. occurred and was controversial.
The federal government was criticized by people on both sides of the conflict for failing to ensure indigenous fishing access and enforcing government rules on harvest timing.
Jordan lost the 2021 federal election to Conservative MP Rick Perkins.
