Keith Goulet

{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{distinguish|Keith Goullet}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable]] | honorific_suffix = [[Executive Council of Saskatchewan|ECS]] | name = Keith Goulet | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|4|3}} | birth_place = [[Cumberland House, Saskatchewan]] | office = [[Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan|MLA]] for [[Cumberland (Saskatchewan provincial electoral district)|Cumberland]] | term_start = October 20, 1986 | term_end = November 5, 2003 | predecessor = [[Lawrence Yew]] | successor = [[Joan Beatty]] | party = [[Saskatchewan New Democratic Party|New Democratic Party]] | occupation = | children = [[Danis Goulet]], Koonu Goulet }}

'''Keith Napoleon Goulet''' (born April 3, 1946) is a former Canadian politician, who represented the constituency of [[Cumberland (Saskatchewan provincial electoral district)|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]].<ref>{{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|archive-date=March 31, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331211229/https://esask.uregina.ca/entry/goulet_keith_1946-.jsp|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Life == He was born in [[Cumberland House, Saskatchewan]] in 1946, the son of Arthur Goulet and Veronique Carriere,<ref name="sain">{{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}}</ref> and was educated in Cumberland House in [[Prince Albert, Saskatchewan|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 [[Northlands College|La Ronge Community College]] and was executive director of the [[Gabriel Dumont Institute|Gabriel Dumont Institute of Métis Studies and Applied Research]]. In 1974, he married Linda May Hemingway.<ref name="sain"/> He has two daughters, filmmaker [[Danis Goulet]]<ref>{{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}}</ref> and Kona Goulet, as well as three grandchildren.

Goulet was the first Indigenous member of the provincial cabinet, serving as [[Provincial secretary|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.<ref name="sain"/>

As of 2022, he was living in [[Prince Albert, Saskatchewan|Prince Albert]].<ref name="sain"/>

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