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Carol Skelton | |
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| Member of Parliament forSaskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar | |
| In office November 27, 2000 – October 14, 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Dennis Gruending |
| Succeeded by | Kelly Block |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1945-12-12)December 12, 1945 (age 79) Biggar, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse | Noel Skelton |
| Residence(s) | Harris, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Profession | Nonprofit service coordinator, family services officer |
Carol Skelton,PC (born December 12, 1945) is aCanadian politician. She is a member of theSecurity Intelligence Review Committee which oversees the operation ofCanadian Security Intelligence Service. She formerly served asMember of Parliament from 2000 to 2008, and was the Minister of National Revenue from 2006 to 2007.
She was first elected in the2000 federal election by 68 votes over incumbentDennis Gruending of theNew Democratic Party in the riding ofSaskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar, as a member of theCanadian Alliance. She was deputy leader of the Canadian Alliance for six months in 2003 before that party disbanded itself to merge into the newConservative Party of Canada.
She was re-elected in the2004 federal election by over 2,000 votes in a rematch against Gruending. She is the former official opposition critic of Family Issues, Children and Youth, Human Resources Development, the Deputy Prime Minister, Social Economy, Western Economic Diversification, Public Health and Social Development, where she was instrumental in developing the party's child care policies.
In2006, she was re-elected again, defeating NDP candidateNettie Wiebe by 6.3 percentage points. She was appointed to the federal cabinet on February 6, 2006, by the newprime ministerStephen Harper, making her the first ever female Canadian federal cabinet minister from the province of Saskatchewan. On May 28, 2007, she announced a new Taxpayers' Bill of Rights and the creation of a Taxpayer's Ombudsman at the Canada Revenue Agency.
In January 2007, she lost the portfolio ofMinister of Western Economic Diversification when it was transferred toRona Ambrose in a minorcabinet shuffle. Skelton announced on August 3, 2007, that she would not run in the2008 election. Her tenure as Revenue minister ended when Prime Minister Harper againshuffled his cabinet on August 14, 2007.