Kennie MacAskill

{{short description|Canadian politician}}

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

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| name = Kennie MacAskill

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1933|8|12}}

| birth_place =Englishtown, Nova Scotia{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cGqJAAAAMAAJ&q=%22macaskill,+kenneth%22+1933&dq=%22macaskill,+kenneth%22+1933|title=The Canadian Parliamentary Guide|publisher=P.G. Normandin|year=1994|page=765|isbn=9780921925545}}

| residence = Englishtown, Nova Scotia

| office = MLA for Victoria

| term_start = 1988

| term_end = 2003

| predecessor = Fisher Hudson

| successor = riding dissolved

| party = Liberal

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Kenneth MacAskill (born August 12, 1933) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Victoria in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1988 to 2003. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.

Born in 1933,{{cite web|url=http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/minister.htm|title=Minister of Natural Resources|publisher=Government of Nova Scotia|accessdate=2015-06-19|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19990507062249/http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/minister.htm|archivedate=May 7, 1999}} MacAskill is a graduate of the Nova Scotia Institute of Technology where he obtained an interprovincial plumbing certificate.{{cite web|url=http://www.liberalcaucus-ns.com/mlas/victoria.html|title=Liberal Caucus biography|publisher=Nova Scotia Liberal Caucus|accessdate=2014-09-29|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030617135306/http://www.liberalcaucus-ns.com/mlas/victoria.html|archivedate=June 17, 2003}} For over 20 years, he operated his own plumbing and heating business in Englishtown, Nova Scotia. MacAskill entered provincial politics in 1988, defeating Progressive Conservative incumbent Fisher Hudson to become the MLA for Victoria.{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201988.pdf |title=Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1988 |publisher=Elections Nova Scotia |year=1988 |accessdate=2014-09-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512225642/http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201988.pdf |archivedate=2014-05-12 }} He was re-elected in 1993{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201993.pdf |title=Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1993 |publisher=Elections Nova Scotia |year=1993 |accessdate=2014-09-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006070337/http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201993.pdf |archivedate=2014-10-06 }} and served as a backbencher in John Savage's government. On July 18, 1997, MacAskill was appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Natural Resources.{{cite web|url=http://www.herald.ns.ca/specialevents/libleader/stories/970719100.html|title=MacLellan makeover|work=The Chronicle Herald|date=July 19, 1997|accessdate=2014-09-29|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19980204071951/http://www.herald.ns.ca/specialevents/libleader/stories/970719100.html|archivedate=February 4, 1998}}{{cite web|url=http://www.herald.ns.ca/specialevents/libleader/stories/970719101.html|title=Four fresh horses|work=The Chronicle Herald|date=July 19, 1997|accessdate=2014-09-29|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19980204072027/http://www.herald.ns.ca/specialevents/libleader/stories/970719101.html|archivedate=February 4, 1998}} Following his re-election in the 1998 election,{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/Dist51.pdf|title=Election Returns, 1998 (Victoria)|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|accessdate=2014-09-29}} MacAskill retained the Natural Resources portfolio.{{cite web|url=http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaypackstory?1998/04/09+214.raw+PE98Apr9+2 |title=A cabinet with four legs |work=The Chronicle Herald |date=April 9, 1998 |accessdate=2014-09-29 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050123224339/http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaypackstory?1998%2F04%2F09%2B214.raw%2BPE98Apr9%2B2 |archivedate=January 23, 2005 |url-status=dead }} He was re-elected to a fourth term as MLA in the 1999 election,{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/99VICTOR.pdf|title=Election Returns, 1999 (Victoria)|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|accessdate=2014-09-29}} and did not seek re-election in 2003.{{cite news|title=Veteran Liberal MLA leaving politics to spend time with his family|work=Cape Breton Post|date=May 11, 2002}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/nsvotes2003/riding/050/|title=2003 district profile: Victoria-The Lakes|publisher=CBC News|accessdate=2014-09-29}}