Shawn Murphy

:"For the American football player see Shawn Murphy (American football); see also people named Shaun Murphy."

Infobox CanadianMP
honorific-prefix =The Honourable
name=Shawn Murphy


term_start=2000
term_end=
predecessor= George Proud
birth_date= birth date and age |1951|7|27
birth_place= Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
spouse= Yvette (Comeau) Murphy
death_date=
death_place=
profession= attorney
party=Liberal
party colour=Liberal
residence=Charlottetown
riding=Charlottetown
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Shawn Murphy, PC, MP, QC (born July 27, 1951 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) is a Canadian politician.

Murphy attended the University of Prince Edward Island, and later the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law, graduating with a law degree in 1976. He returned to Prince Edward Island and joined a local law practice, working alongside future Premier Joe Ghiz. In 1997, he was made a Queen's Counsel. Murphy is married and has three adult children.

Murphy is a current member of the Liberal Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Charlottetown since the election of 2000. During the Martin government, he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans with special emphasis on the Oceans Action Plan.

He was re-elected with nearly 50% of the vote in the 2004 federal election.Despite rumours of his vulnerability in the 2006 federal election, Murphy was reelected with slightly more than 50% of the vote. With the Liberals now in opposition, Murphy became the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.

Controversy

On March 3, 2008, Murphy made a formal apology in the House of Commons with regards to comments made the preceding Friday about the former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Murphy shouted "Let's get this Mulroney before the courts as soon as possible and hang him high! ... We've got to get Mulroney. Put a noose on his head! Put a noose on his head!" [http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2008/03/03/murphy-noose.html accessed March 5, 2008] The remarks interrupted comments by Conservative member Ed Fast, with whom he shares a table and microphone. In his apology, Murphy stated that his comments were "... wrong, improper, inappropriate and extremely unparliamentarian."

Electoral Record

-
style="width: 130px" |Liberal
Shawn Murphy
align="right"|9,586
align="right"|50.16
align="right"|+0.76
-
Conservative
Tom DeBlois
align="right"|6,524
align="right"|34.14
align="right"|+6.54
New Democratic Party
Brian Pollard
align="right"|2,126
align="right"|11.12
align="right"|-7.28
Green
David Daughton
align="right"|586
align="right"|3.07
align="right"|-1.03
Marijuana
Andrew J. Chisholm
align="right"|193
align="right"|1.01
align="right"
Christian Heritage
Baird Judson
align="right"|97
align="right"|0.51
align="right"|-0.09
- bgcolor="white"!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"|19,112!align="right"
!align="right"

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style="width: 130px" |Liberal
Shawn Murphy
align="right"|9,175
align="right"|49.4
align="right"|+6.8
-
Conservative
Darren Peters
align="right"|5,121
align="right"|27.6
align="right"|-9.8
New Democratic Party
Dody Crane
align="right"|3,428
align="right"|18.4
align="right"|-2.9
Green
Will McFadden
align="right"|760
align="right"|4.1
align="right"|+4.1
Christian Heritage
Baird Judson
align="right"|105
align="right"|0.6
align="right"|+0.3
- bgcolor="white"!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"|18,589!align="right"
!align="right"

-
style="width: 130px" |Liberal
Shawn Murphy
align="right"|8,277
align="right"
align="right"
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Conservative
Darren Peters
align="right"|6,039
align="right"
align="right"
New Democratic Party
Dody Crane
align="right"|4,328
align="right"
align="right"
Canadian Alliance
Gerry Stewart
align="right"|1,005
align="right"
align="right"
Natural Law
Peter Cameron
align="right"|92
align="right"
align="right"
Christian Heritage
Baird Judson
align="right"|58
align="right"
align="right"
- bgcolor="white"!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"|19,799!align="right"
!align="right"

Notes

External links

* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?Language=E&query=17762&s=M&md=1 Federal Political Biography from the Library of Parliament]