Tony Cornect

{{Infobox officeholder

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| name = Tony Cornect

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| birth_date =

| birth_place = Cape St. George, Newfoundland and Labrador

| residence = Kippens, Newfoundland and Labrador

| office2 = Minister of Service NL

| term_start2 = September 30, 2014

| term_end2 = March 12, 2015

| successor2 = Dan Crummell

| predecessor2 = David Brazil

| office3 = Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation of
Newfoundland and Labrador

| term_start3 = July 17, 2014

| term_end3 =September 30, 2014

| successor3 = Darin King

| predecessor3 = Sandy Collins

|assembly1 = Newfoundland and Labrador House of

|constituency_AM1 = Port au Port

| term_start1 = February 8, 2007

| term_end1 = November 30, 2015

| predecessor1 = Jim Hodder

| successor1 = District Abolished

| party = Progressive Conservative

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| occupation =

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Tony Cornect is a Canadian politician from Newfoundland and Labrador, who represented the district of Port au Port in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 2007 to 2015. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, and served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation and Minister of Service NL. He was defeated in the 2015 provincial election, in which he ran in the new district of Stephenville-Port au Port.[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/provincial-election-candidates-1.3343999 "Full list of winners in Newfoundland and Labrador election"]. CBC News, November 30, 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/cabinet-ministers-defeated-1.3344727|title=4 Tory cabinet ministers fall to defeat in Liberal rout|publisher=CBC News|date=December 1, 2015|accessdate=3 April 2016}}

Cornect previously served as a town councillor and mayor in Cape St. George. He was also formerly a board member of Le Gaboteur, the province's only French-language newspaper.{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-s-french-newspaper-le-gaboteur-s-future-uncertain-1.173184|title=Newfoundland's French newspaper Le Gaboteur's future uncertain|publisher=CBC News|date=December 17, 1999|accessdate=May 26, 2018}} A fluently bilingual Franco-Newfoundlander, Cornect was the first MHA in the province ever to take his oath of office in French.{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/port-au-port-mha-pledges-oath-in-french-1.678052|title=Port au Port MHA pledges oath in French|publisher=CBC News|date=March 5, 2007|accessdate=May 26, 2018}}

Electoral record

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{{Election box begin | title=2011 Newfoundland and Labrador general election}}

{{Election box begin | title=2007 Newfoundland and Labrador general election[http://www.cbc.ca/nlvotes2007/riding/007/ Newfoundland & Labrador Votes 2007]. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved May 22, 2009.}}

class="wikitable" ! colspan="6"\|By-election, February 8, 2007 resignation of Jim Hodder
colspan="2" style="width: 200px"\|Party ! style="width: 170px"\|Candidate ! style="width: 40px"\|Votes ! style="width: 40px"\|% ! style="width: 40px"\|+/- {{Canadian party colour\|NL\|PC\|row}} \| style="width: 185px"\| Progressive Conservative \|Tony Cornect \|align=right\|2,701 \|align=right\|62.0 \|align=right\|
{{CANelec\|NL\|Liberal\|Mark Felix\|1,521\|34.9

class="wikitable"

! colspan="6"|By-election, February 8, 2007
resignation of Jim Hodder

colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party

! style="width: 170px"|Candidate

! style="width: 40px"|Votes

! style="width: 40px"|%

! style="width: 40px"|+/-

| style="width: 185px"| Progressive Conservative

|Tony Cornect

|align=right|2,701

|align=right|62.0

|align=right|