{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{about||the entertainer|Tim Brooke-Taylor|the mathematician|Brook Taylor}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people - see WP:NONFREE --> | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | honorific_suffix = ECNS | name = Brooke Taylor | caption = Brooke Taylor, MLA | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|06|21}} | birth_place = Musquodoboit Valley | assembly = Nova Scotia House of | constituency_AM = Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley | term_start = May 25, 1993 | term_end = July 9, 2009 | predecessor = Ken Streatch | successor = Gary Burrill | party = Progressive Conservative | occupation = }}
'''Brooke Taylor''' (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1993 to 2009. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.
Born in Musquodoboit Valley, Nova Scotia, Taylor was elected to Halifax County Council in 1991.<ref name="Brookes great trip"/> He was first elected provincially in a November 1993 by-election.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaypackstory?1993/11/03+101.raw+PE93Elect|title=Tory candidate wins byelection|work=The Chronicle Herald|date=November 3, 1993|accessdate=2014-10-10|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20000226004723/http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaypackstory?1993%2F11%2F03+101.raw+PE93Elect|archivedate=February 26, 2000|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{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 |page=164 |accessdate=2015-07-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006070337/http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201993.pdf |archivedate=2014-10-06 }}</ref> He was re-elected in the 1998,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/Dist14.pdf|title=Election Returns, 1998 (Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley)|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|accessdate=2014-10-10|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017075404/http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/Dist14.pdf|archivedate=2014-10-17}}</ref> 1999,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/99COLMUS.pdf|title=Election Returns, 1999 (Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley)|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|accessdate=2014-10-10}}</ref> and 2003 general elections.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/03dist12.pdf|title=Election Returns, 2003 (Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley)|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|accessdate=2014-10-10}}</ref> In February 2006, Taylor was appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Natural Resources.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/macdonald-mixes-cabinet-with-old-and-new-1.600676|title=MacDonald mixes cabinet with old and new|publisher=CBC News|date=February 23, 2006|accessdate=2014-10-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.herald.ns.ca/Front/486196.html|title=And the cabinet is . . .|work=The Chronicle Herald|date=February 25, 2006|accessdate=2014-10-10|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060226014829/http://www.herald.ns.ca/Front/486196.html|archivedate=February 26, 2006}}</ref> Taylor was re-elected in the 2006 election,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/dist12_0.pdf|title=Election Returns, 2006 (Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley)|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|accessdate=2014-10-10}}</ref> and named Minister of Agriculture in a post-election cabinet shuffle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/macdonald-s-expanded-cabinet-has-3-rookies-1.590233|title=MacDonald's expanded cabinet has 3 rookies|publisher=CBC News|date=June 26, 2006|accessdate=2014-10-10}}</ref> In January 2009, Taylor was shuffled again, becoming Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.capebretonpost.com/business/ns-premier-rodney-macdonald-shuffles-cabinet-one-new-face-18065/|title=N.S. Premier Rodney MacDonald shuffles cabinet; one new face|work=Cape Breton Post|date=January 7, 2009|accessdate=2018-05-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424135243/http://www.capebretonpost.com/business/ns-premier-rodney-macdonald-shuffles-cabinet-one-new-face-18065/|archive-date=April 24, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
On May 5, 2009, Taylor announced he was not reoffering in the 2009 election.<ref name="Brookes great trip">{{cite web|url=http://www.trurodaily.com/News/2009-05-06/article-357991/Brookes-great-trip-ends/1|title=Brookes great trip ends|work=Truro Daily News|date=May 6, 2009|accessdate=2023-11-04|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016140543/http://www.trurodaily.com/News/2009-05-06/article-357991/Brookes-great-trip-ends/1|archivedate=October 16, 2014}}</ref> At the time of his retirement he was the longest continuous serving Progressive Conservative MLA.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metro.us/news/veteran-tory-brooke-taylor-not-running-for-re-election/tmWief---7djnn6oBfmOGM|title=Veteran Tory Brooke Taylor not running for re-election|work=Metro|date=May 6, 2009|accessdate=2018-05-10}}</ref>
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