Claudette Bradshaw

{{Short description|Canadian politician (1949–2022)}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = The Honourable

| name = Claudette Bradshaw

| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|ONB|size=100%}}

| image = Claudette Bradshaw - 2003 (cropped).jpg

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| office = Minister of Labour

| term_start = November 23, 1998

| term_end = July 20, 2004

| primeminister = Jean Chrétien
Paul Martin

| predecessor = Lawrence MacAulay

| successor = Joe Fontana

| riding1 = Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe

| parliament1 = Canadian

| term_start1 = June 2, 1997

| term_end1 = January 23, 2006

| predecessor1 = George Rideout

| successor1 = Brian Murphy

| birth_date = {{birth date|1949|04|08}}

| birth_place = Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|3|26|1949|4|8}}

| death_place = Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

| profession = Executive Director

| alma_mater =

| party = Liberal

| residence =

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| caption = Bradshaw in 2003

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Claudette Bradshaw {{postnom|PC|ONB}} (April 8, 1949 – March 26, 2022) was a Canadian politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, New Brunswick. She was first elected on June 2, 1997, and served until the 2006 election. She was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Claudette Bradshaw was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for International Cooperation and Minister Responsible for the Francophonie on June 10, 1997. On November 23, 1998, she was appointed to cabinet as Minister of Labour. After being re-elected in November 2000, she was re-appointed Minister of Labour on January 15, 2002, and again on December 12, 2003. From March 23, 1999, until July 20, 2004, she was the Federal Coordinator on Homelessness.

After the 2004 election, Prime Minister Paul Martin shuffled the cabinet, and demoted Bradshaw to the position of Minister of State (Human Resources Development). In November 2005, Bradshaw announced that she would not stand for re-election in the 2006 federal election.

Following her retirement from federal politics, there was some speculation that she would run for the provincial Liberals in the next New Brunswick election in the riding of Kent South. Bradshaw later announced she was not interested in re-entering electoral politics but was appointed special advisor to leader Shawn Graham for that election campaign.

In 2009, she was appointed a member of the Order of New Brunswick.[http://www.gnb.ca/lg/ONB/Recipients2009/recipients-09-e.asp#bradshaw ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091118010919/http://www.gnb.ca/lg/ONB/Recipients2009/recipients-09-e.asp |date=November 18, 2009 }} In 2020, she was awarded the Human Rights Award of the Province of Brunswick.{{Cite web |url=https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2020.09.0479.html |author=Benoît Locas, New Brunswick Human Rights Commission |title=2020 Human Rights Award recipients announced |website=Government of New Brunswick |date= September 15, 2020|access-date=September 18, 2020 }}

Bradshaw died on March 26, 2022, at the age of 72 from cancer.{{cite news |last1=Leger |first1=Isabelle |title=Claudette Bradshaw, former MP and advocate for the homeless, dies at 72 |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/claudette-bradshaw-dies-72-1.6399189 |access-date=March 27, 2022 |work=CBC News |date=March 27, 2022}}