Keith Goulet
{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
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{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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|honorific-prefix=The Honourable
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| name = Keith Goulet
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|4|3}}
| birth_place = Cumberland House, Saskatchewan
| residence = Cumberland House, Saskatchewan
| office = MLA for Cumberland
| term_start = October 20, 1986
| term_end = November 5, 2003
| predecessor = Lawrence Yew
| successor = Joan Beatty
| party = New Democratic Party
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| children = Danis Goulet, Koonu Goulet
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Keith Napoleon Goulet (born April 3, 1946) is a former Canadian politician, who represented the constituency of Cumberland in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1986 to 2003. A member of Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, he was the first Aboriginal person appointed to the Executive Council of Saskatchewan.{{cite web|url=https://esask.uregina.ca/entry/goulet_keith_1946-.jsp|title=GOULET, KEITH (1946-)|publisher=The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan|access-date=April 18, 2023}}
Life
He was born in Cumberland House, Saskatchewan in 1946, the son of Arthur Goulet and Veronique Carriere,{{cite web|url=http://sain.scaa.sk.ca/collections/index.php/keith-goulet-fonds%3Brad|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202129/http://sain.scaa.sk.ca/collections/index.php/keith-goulet-fonds;rad|archive-date=March 4, 2016|title=Keith Goulet fonds |publisher=Saskatchewan Archival Information Network}} and was educated in Cumberland House in Prince Albert, at teacher's college in Ontario, at the University of Saskatchewan, and at the University of Regina. Goulet taught elementary school, lectured at the University of Saskatchewan, was principal of La Ronge Community College and was executive director of the Gabriel Dumont Institute of Métis Studies and Applied Research. In 1974, he married Linda May Hemingway. He has two daughters, filmmaker Danis Goulet{{Cite news|last=Levy|first=Bryn|date=October 8, 2021|orig-date=Originally published October 7, 2021|title=Indigenous storyteller Danis Goulet drives change in Canada's film industry|url=https://thestarphoenix.com/news/saskatchewan/indigenous-storyteller-danis-goulet-drives-change-in-canadas-film-industry|access-date=April 18, 2023|work=The StarPhoenix|language=en-CA}} and Kona Goulet, as well as three grandchildren.
Goulet was the first Indigenous member of the provincial cabinet, serving as Provincial Secretary, as Associate Minister of Education, and as Minister of Northern Affairs. He retired from cabinet in October 2001 and retired from the legislature in 2003.
As of 2022, he was living in Prince Albert.
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Category:Saskatchewan New Democratic Party MLAs
Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
Category:21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
Category:Canadian Métis people
Category:Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation people
Category:People from Cumberland House, Saskatchewan
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