{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Wade Verge |image = |office1 = Speaker of the House of Assembly |term_start1 = September 5, 2014 |term_end1 = December 14, 2015 |predecessor1 = Ross Wiseman |successor1 = Tom Osborne<ref>{{Cite web |last=CBC News |date=December 19, 2015 |title=New House Speaker Tom Osborne first to be chosen by election |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/new-house-speaker-tom-osborne-first-to-be-chosen-by-election-1.3372475 |website=CBC}}</ref> |office2 = Member of the House of Assembly |term_start2 = November 1, 2007<ref>{{cite web|title=Media Advisory: Members of House of Assembly to be Sworn-in November 1|url=http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2007/hoa/1018n08.htm|publisher=Government of Newfoundland and Labrador|access-date=6 May 2015|date=18 October 2007}}</ref> |term_end2 = November 27, 2015 |predecessor2 = Tom Rideout |successor2 = ''District Abolished'' |constituency2 = Lewisporte |birth_date = |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |party = Progressive Conservative |alma_mater = Memorial University }}
'''Wade Verge''' is a politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Verge represented the district of Lewisporte in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 2007 until 2015. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.
Verge was formerly an educator and served as the principal at New World Island Academy of New World Island.
In September 2009, Verge spoke out against his own government's cutbacks to health care in his district. Premier Danny Williams dismissed Verge's comments, saying that "he didn't understand that that's what it meant", and that, "for what it's worth, he's entitled to his opinion."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/n-l-premier-mha-disagree-on-health-cuts-1.853967|title=N.L. premier, MHA disagree on health cuts|publisher=CBC News|date=September 2, 2009|access-date=2015-10-30}}</ref> Verge was later booed at a rally against the cuts after he reversed his position and sided with the government, although he stated he also supported the people of his district.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/health-cuts-protests-grow-1.779294|title=Health-cuts protests grow|publisher=CBC News|date=September 4, 2009|access-date=2015-10-30}}</ref> On October 7, Premier Williams appointed a new Minister of Health and Community Services.<ref>[http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2009/exec/1007n05.htm "Premier Announces Changes to Cabinet"]. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, October 7, 2009.</ref> Joined by the new minister in Lewisporte on October 14, Verge stated, "Government is looking harder and digging deeper to try and find a solution to the problem. ...Hopefully at the end of the day we will be able to deliver all the services that the people want coming out of Lewisporte."<ref>[http://www.lportepilot.ca/News/2009-10-21/article-1423841/Holding-out-hope/1 "Holding out hope"]. The Pilot (Lewisporte, Newfoundland and Labrador), October 21, 2009.</ref> The government subsequently reversed its decision to remove laboratory and X-ray services from Lewisporte.<ref>[http://www.lportepilot.ca/News/2010-01-13/article-1422938/MHA-reflects-on-2009/1 "MHA reflects on 2009"]. The Pilot (Lewisporte, Newfoundland and Labrador), January 13, 2010.</ref> He was Speaker of the House of Assembly from 2014 until 2015.
== Electoral record == {{Election box begin | title=2011 Newfoundland and Labrador general election}} |- {{CANelec |NL |PC |Wade Verge |2450 |56.60% |–}} |- {{Canadian party colour|NL|NDP|row}} |NDP |Lloyd Snow |align="right"|988 |align="right"|22.82% |align="right"| |- {{CANelec|NL|Liberal|Todd Manuel|891|20.58%|}} |}
{{Election box begin | title=2007 Newfoundland and Labrador general election}} |- {{CANelec |NL |PC |Wade Verge |2660 |70.61% |–}} |- {{CANelec|NL|Liberal|Jack Martin|647|17.18%|}} |- {{Canadian party colour|NL|NDP|row}} |NDP |Garry Vatcher |align="right"|460 |align="right"|12.21% |align="right"| |}<ref name=cbcnews>[http://www.cbc.ca/nlvotes2007/riding/027/ Newfoundland & Labrador Votes 2007]. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved May 22, 2009.</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.pcpartynl.ca/person/wade-verge/ Wade Verge's PC Party biography]
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