{{short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Rose Marie MacDonald | image = | caption = | birth_date = July 3, 1941 | birth_place = Woodville Mills, Prince Edward Island | birth_name = Rose Marie MacLean | death_date = {{death date and age |2012|09|03 |1941|07|03|mf=yes}} | office = Assemblyman for 5th Kings | term_start = 1988 | term_end = 1996 | predecessor = Arthur MacDonald | successor = riding dissolved | party = Liberal | profession = | spouse = Ronald MacDonald | children = }} '''Rose Marie MacDonald''', née '''MacLean''' (July 3, 1941 – September 3, 2012) was a Canadian politician, who represented 5th Kings in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1988 to 1996.<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/community-advocate-rose-marie-macdonald-dies-at-71-1.1247986 "Community advocate Rose Marie MacDonald dies at 71"]. CBC News, September 5, 2012.</ref> She was a member of the Prince Edward Island Liberal Party.
Born in Woodville Mills, Prince Edward Island,<ref name=peildo>[http://vre2.upei.ca/leg/fedora/repository/leg:27606 Rose Marie MacDonald] at Prince Edward Island Legislative Documents Online.</ref> she worked as a cook, as an office clerk and as an employee of the Bank of Montreal prior to her career in politics.<ref name=peildo />
She was first elected to the legislature in a by-election in 1988, and was reelected in the general elections of 1989 and 1993.<ref name=peildo/> As a member of the assembly, she chaired the committee on education, community and cultural affairs, the committee on natural resources and the environment and a special committee on legislative reform,<ref>[http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2012-09-04/article-3067379/Passionate-advocate-for-rural-Prince-Edward-Island-dies/1 "'Passionate advocate for rural Prince Edward Island' dies"]. ''The Guardian'', September 4, 2012.</ref> and served as the Liberal caucus whip.<ref name=peildo /> On April 20, 1995, she was speaking in the legislature when a pipe bomb exploded outside the building, sending glass flying into the chamber.<ref>"Bomb blast rocks PEI Legislature Man hurt as glass, wood go flying". ''The Globe and Mail'', April 21, 1995.</ref>
At the 1996 regional conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, MacDonald was a panelist, alongside Lloyd Snow of Newfoundland and Maynard Sonntag of Saskatchewan, at a seminar on the social and legal implications of government-sponsored gambling initiatives.<ref>[http://www.revparl.ca/english/issue.asp?param=158&art=1083 "Thirty-Fifth Regional Conference, Winnipeg"]. ''Canadian Parliamentary Review'', Vol. 19, No. 3 (1996).</ref>
In the 1996 election, she was defeated by Michael Currie of the Progressive Conservatives in the new district of Georgetown-Baldwin's Road.<ref name=peildo />
She later served on the board of directors of the Souris Hospital, the Island Community Theatre and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.<ref name=peildo />
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