Allen Roach

{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | honorific_prefix = | name = Allen Roach | honorific_suffix = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1952|3|9}} | birth_place = Souris, Prince Edward Island | office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island for<br/>Montague-Kilmuir | term_start = October 18, 2011 | term_end = March 26, 2019 | predecessor = Jim Bagnall | successor = Cory Deagle | party = Liberal | occupation = Retired Member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (37 years) }}

'''Allen F. Roach''' (born 9 March 1952)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.assembly.pe.ca/sites/www.assembly.pe.ca/files/Historical%20MLA%20Bios/R-2.pdf|publisher=Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island|title=Minding the House: a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs (Volume 2), 1993-2017 (Cassandra Bernard & Sean McQuaid, Eds.) |accessdate=2021-04-07}}</ref> is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2011 provincial election.<ref>[http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/Decision%20%2711/Decision%20%2711/2011-10-03/article-2765847/Allan-Campbell-loses-to-Colin-LaVie/1 "Five Tories to join 22 Liberals at legislature"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121216043120/http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/Decision%20'11/Decision%20'11/2011-10-03/article-2765847/Allan-Campbell-loses-to-Colin-LaVie/1 |date=2012-12-16 }}. ''Charlottetown Guardian'', October 3, 2011.</ref> He represented the district of Montague-Kilmuir as a member of the Prince Edward Island Liberal Party until his resignation after deciding not to run in the 2019 Prince Edward Island general election.

In October 2011, Roach was appointed to the Executive Council of Prince Edward Island as Minister of Innovation and Advanced Learning.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/veterans-bounced-from-p-e-i-cabinet-1.1108917|title=Veterans bounced from P.E.I. cabinet|publisher=CBC News|date=October 18, 2011|accessdate=2016-06-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2011-10-18/article-2780022/Ghiz-announces-new-cabinet%3B-Brown,-Bertram-lose-portfolios/1|title=Ghiz announces new cabinet; Brown, Bertram lose portfolios|work=The Guardian|date=October 18, 2011|accessdate=2016-06-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803155331/http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2011-10-18/article-2780022/Ghiz-announces-new-cabinet%3B-Brown,-Bertram-lose-portfolios/1|archive-date=August 3, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> He retained the portfolio when Wade MacLauchlan took over as premier in February 2015, but was given an additional role as Minister of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Rural Development.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2015-02-23/article-4053972/Wade-MacLauchlan-sworn-in-as-premier,-reduces-cabinet/1|title=Wade MacLauchlan sworn in as premier, reduces cabinet|work=The Guardian|date=February 23, 2015|accessdate=2016-06-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803160044/http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2015-02-23/article-4053972/Wade-MacLauchlan-sworn-in-as-premier,-reduces-cabinet/1|archive-date=August 3, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> On May 20, 2015, Roach was moved to Minister of Finance.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/p-e-i-cabinet-restructured-under-maclauchlan-1.3080228|title=P.E.I. cabinet restructured under MacLauchlan|publisher=CBC News|date=May 20, 2015|accessdate=2016-06-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/pei-premier-wade-maclauchlan-names-new-lean-nine-member-cabinet/article24509864/|title=PEI Premier Wade MacLauchlan names new, lean nine-member cabinet|work=The Globe and Mail|date=May 20, 2015|accessdate=2016-06-03}}</ref> Roach resigned his cabinet position as finance minister on January 10, 2018, after announcing that he would not run in the 2019 election.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-cabinet-shuffle-1.4480654|title=Roach, McIsaac resign from P.E.I. cabinet|publisher=CBC News|date=January 10, 2018|accessdate=2018-01-10}}</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.assembly.pe.ca/index.php3?number=1028672 Legislative Assembly of PEI biography]

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