Marie Dechman

{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | honorific_suffix = ECNS | name = Marie P. Dechman | caption = | birth_date = 1941 | birth_place = | office = MLA for Lunenburg West | term_start = 1988 | term_end = 1993 | predecessor = Mel Pickings | successor = Don Downe | party = Progressive Conservative | occupation = }} '''Marie P. Dechman'''<ref name="1988 results"/> is a Canadian politician. She represented the electoral district of Lunenburg West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1988 to 1993. She was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.

==Political career== Dechman entered provincial politics in the 1988 election, winning the Lunenburg West riding by 268 votes.<ref name="1988 results">{{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=2014-11-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512225642/http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201988.pdf |archivedate=2014-05-12 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Buchanan's 'new PCs' same old faces|work=The Globe and Mail|date=September 8, 1988}}</ref> In 1989, she was elected Nova Scotia's first woman Deputy Speaker.<ref name="ex politicians">{{cite web|url=http://www.southshorenow.ca/en/20141022/News/74968/Local-MLAs-savour-experience-with-ex-politician-club.htm|title=Local MLAs savour experience with ex-politician club|work=South Shore Now|date=October 21, 2014|accessdate=2014-11-12|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20141112042722/http://www.southshorenow.ca/en/20141022/News/74968/Local-MLAs-savour-experience-with-ex-politician-club.htm|archivedate=November 12, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://nslegislature.ca/about/history/timeline#event-marie-dechman-portrait-first-woman-deputy-speaker|title=Marie Dechman, portrait - first woman Deputy Speaker|publisher=The Nova Scotia Legislature|accessdate=2018-04-23}}</ref> In February 1991, Dechman was appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Community Services.<ref>{{cite news|title=Woman appointed to leaner N.S. cabinet|work=Toronto Star|date=February 26, 1991}}</ref> On February 17, 1992, she was shuffled to Minister of Counsumer Affairs, and Minister responsible for Housing,<ref>{{cite news|title=Thornhill returns to cabinet in shuffle|work=The Chronicle Herald|date=February 18, 1992}}</ref> which were later merged into one position, Minister of Housing and Consumer Affairs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parl.gc.ca/parlinfo/Files/Province.aspx?Item=9ffd965d-ffd6-435d-9d6b-114dafca76d6&Language=E&MenuID=Compilations.ProvinceTerritory.aspx.Menu&Section=Women|title=Nova Scotia: Women in the Legislature|publisher=Parliament of Canada|accessdate=2014-11-12}}</ref> In the 1993 election, Dechman was defeated by Liberal Don Downe.<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 |year=1993 |accessdate=2014-11-12 |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><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaypackstory?1993/05/26+107.raw+PE93Elect |title=Liberal sweep claims cabinet ministers |work=The Chronicle Herald |date=May 26, 1993 |accessdate=2014-11-12 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20000830230443/http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaypackstory?1993%2F05%2F26%2B107.raw%2BPE93Elect |archivedate=August 30, 2000 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaypackstory?1993/05/26+106.raw+PE93Elect |title=Female representation increases, but not by much |work=The Chronicle Herald |date=May 26, 1993 |accessdate=2014-11-12 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20001007113627/http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaypackstory?1993%2F05%2F26%2B106.raw%2BPE93Elect |archivedate=October 7, 2000 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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