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Andy Scott, former N.B. MP and cabinet minister, dead at 58.
OTTAWA – Andy Scott, a former New Brunswick Liberal MP and cabinet minister has died at the age of 58.
He was a senior provincial public servant before he ran for Parliament in 1993 and won a seat in Fredericton.
He was re-elected in 1997 and appointed solicitor general by Jean Chretien.
He resigned, though, after a New Democrat MP overheard him talking during a plane flight about a pepper-spray incident that occurred during an international meeting in Vancouver.
Scott was said to have told a companion that the RCMP officers involved would take all the blame.
Paul Martin re-appointed him to cabinet as a minister of state in 2003 and made him Indian affairs minister after the 2004 election.
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