{"id":226139,"date":"2019-08-08T19:38:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T23:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=226139"},"modified":"2019-08-08T19:38:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T23:38:12","slug":"former-new-brunswick-premier-accepts-new-advisor-job-with-ryerson-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/08\/former-new-brunswick-premier-accepts-new-advisor-job-with-ryerson-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Former New Brunswick premier accepts new advisor job with Ryerson University"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v4.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BrianGallantNB\/photos\/a.369263436500970\/2443131119114181\/?type=3&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARBXlr1QJUtZxQvkz5KfVRU2S5tRvUl5pOAR5pH8mvW9ZDYEx7DP9fzlyIuHeVdK7VaQDOvjLFjL84DIbENg51vDMDkjaJeyNvumsNRA0Jhj5jWdo21Ayj6b5mce4MEl4AGoo4N7E82wkocH1HgNIXpGdeXQtKtBvcafHSnyxph-pgSU_dWV06Msi4OYJG1256PxRD6DFz5Pd-HOcX69-ivDizZffN7s6Ob-F6Ph-QxYC-rWnqbbXxjCWuFWXMT5PZbx0GB4APw3cNxxfBA_Gbddc_0Gv4O-cYKjUVnz286FRXLldE5uWgv3odgS85BAnlgNlgTHif5NorBwwMPTFT78Jg&amp;__tn__=-R\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BrianGallantNB\/photos\/a.369263436500970\/2443131119114181\/?type=3\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>Life Update: As I have said publicly a few months ago, I will not be re-offering in the next provincial election,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BrianGallantNB\/\">Brian Gallant<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BrianGallantNB\/photos\/a.369263436500970\/2443131119114181\/?type=3\">Wednesday, August 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>FREDERICTON \u2014 Former New Brunswick premier Brian Gallant has been hired by Toronto&#8217;s Ryerson University.<\/p>\n<p>Gallant announced on Facebook Wednesday he will become a special advisor to Ryerson&#8217;s president while remaining an MLA for Shediac Bay-Dieppe. He will advise the president on innovation, cybersecurity, and law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m very excited to have been offered an opportunity to help our country foster an innovative, prosperous, and fairer economy through a reputable institution like Ryerson University,\u201d Gallant wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelping the university build a law school and (looking) at how to improve access to justice throughout Canada are projects that I also look forward to contributing to moving forward,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Gallant practised law in Dieppe before entering politics.<\/p>\n<p>He lost power last fall after the Liberals failed to form a minority government in the weeks following the tight Sept. 24 provincial election. Gallant announced a few months ago he wouldn&#8217;t run in the next election, but he would remain an MLA until then.<\/p>\n<p>Interim Integrity Commissioner, Charles Murray, said Thursday he reviewed Gallant&#8217;s contract with the university and approved it, after some changes in the wording.<\/p>\n<p>Backbench and opposition MLAs are allowed to hold other jobs but they cannot be lobbyists or employees within the provincial government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistorically, being an MLA wasn&#8217;t even considered to be the only job that you would have,\u201d Murray said in an interview. \u201cIt&#8217;s not that long ago we had members with full professions outside of the legislative assembly. The restrictions in the law are really only for cabinet ministers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murray, however, said he believes the legislation needs to be updated once a new integrity commissioner is chosen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur understanding of what a conflict would be and what lobbying would be is changing, and our law is showing its age,\u201d he said. \u201cThe modern understanding doesn&#8217;t really fit with the old law we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Gallant accused former Liberal cabinet minister, Donald Arseneault, of being in a conflict of interest for accepting a job with Canada&#8217;s Building Trades Unions.<\/p>\n<p>Gallant told the longtime MLA to quit the union job or leave the Liberal Party.<\/p>\n<p>Arseneault said at the time he had been cleared to accept the position by the province&#8217;s conflict of interest commissioner. But Gallant had said his colleague fell short of caucus standards on avoiding the perception of a conflict. Arseneault resigned from the legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Progressive Conservative government declined to comment on Gallant&#8217;s new job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life Update: As I have said publicly a few months ago, I will not be re-offering in the next provincial &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":226143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-kevin-bissett","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226144,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226139\/revisions\/226144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}