Rob Moore | |
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| Minister of State (Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency) | |
| In office July 15, 2013 – November 4, 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | Stephen Harper |
| Preceded by | Bernard Valcourt(2012) |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Minister of State (Small Business and Tourism) | |
| In office January 19, 2010 – May 18, 2011 | |
| Prime Minister | Stephen Harper |
| Preceded by | Diane Ablonczy |
| Succeeded by | Maxime Bernier |
| Member of Parliament forFundy Royal | |
| Assumed office October 21, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Alaina Lockhart |
| In office June 28, 2004 – October 19, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | John Herron |
| Succeeded by | Alaina Lockhart |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Robert S. Moore (1974-05-14)May 14, 1974 (age 51) Gander,Newfoundland, Canada |
| Political party | Conservative (2003-present) |
| Other political affiliations | Canadian Alliance (2000-2003) |
| Spouse | Melinda |
| Residence | Quispamsis, New Brunswick |
| Alma mater | University of New Brunswick |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Robert S. MoorePC MP (born May 14, 1974) is aCanadianlawyer,politician, and former Minister of State (ACOA) andRegional Minister for New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador.[1]
Moore was first elected to parliament in the 2004 federal election serving until his defeat in the 2015 federal election. He was re-elected in the 2019 federal election for his former riding of Fundy Royal.
Moore was born inGander,Newfoundland. He is the son of a Pentecostal minister, R. Douglas Moore (of thePentecostal Assemblies of Canada) and his wife, Marie. He has two younger sisters and a younger brother. Due to his father's pastoral work, Moore spent time during his childhood living nearSyracuse, New York, and also spent eight years from late childhood to his mid-teenage years living inBoiling Springs, Pennsylvania. While in Pennsylvania, he attended Bethel Christian Academy, a school inCarlisle, Pennsylvania, affiliated with his father's church, BethelAssembly of God. After completing the 8th grade at Bethel Christian Academy (now called Carlisle Christian Academy), he briefly attendedBoiling Springs High School (within theSouth Middleton School District) in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania. His family returned to Canada in the summer of 1989 when his father, a Canadian citizen, started a church.[2] Moore completed his high school education atKennebecasis Valley High School in 1992.
Moore has aBachelor of Arts degree inBusiness Administration and aBachelor of Laws degree from theUniversity of New Brunswick. He was admitted to theLaw Society of New Brunswick in June 2000.
He and his wife Melinda live inQuispamsis with their two daughters, Madeline and Katelyn and his two sons Luke and Robert.[3]
Moore ran in the2000 federal election for theCanadian Alliance in theNew Brunswick riding ofFundy—Royal. He finished third, with 8,392 votes behindJohn Herron of theProgressive Conservative Party of Canada.
Following the 2003 merger of the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance into the newConservative Party of Canada, Moore ran as the Conservative candidate in the2004 election in the reshaped riding ofFundy against Herron, who had not supported the merger and ran as theLiberal candidate in the 2004 election. Moore won the rematch.
In the2006 election, Moore defeated three opponents: Eldon Hunter of the Liberal Party of Canada, Rob Moir of theNew Democratic Party, and Patty Donovan of theGreen Party of Canada. The Conservatives, led byStephen Harper, replaced the Liberals'minority government with one of their own in 2006. When the new government was sworn in in February 2006, Moore was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. Moore's duties as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice included representing the Minister in Parliament and in the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.
Harper led the Conservative minority government asPrime Minister of Canada for over two years before the2008 Canadian federal election after which a coalition threat was narrowly defeated by a combination of delaying tactics and leadership shifts in the Liberal Party of Canada. Moore was personally re-elected.
On January 19, 2010, Harper appointed Moore to cabinet as the Minister of State (Small Business and Tourism).[4] He replacedDiane Ablonczy, who moved to Minister of State (Seniors). He was eventually released from cabinet after thegeneral election in May 2011 (in which the Conservatives won their firstmajority government since their re-formation under that name).Michael Sona, the only person charged in relation the2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal, worked for a time as a communications special assistant for Moore after the election.[5]
On July 15, 2013, Moore was reinstated in the cabinet and named Minister of State (ACOA) andRegional Minister for New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador in a cabinet shuffle.[1][6] Moore ran for reelection as the Conservative candidate for Fundy Royal in the2015 Canadian federal election[7] but lost to Alaina Lockhart, who became only the second Liberal in a century to win what was generally a safe Conservative seat.[8]
On September 15, 2016, Moore was appointed as the Conservative critic for theAtlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) by Interim Leader of the Conservative Party,Rona Ambrose, replacingScott Armstrong.[9] He was the only Conservative Party critic who was not a member of either theSenate of Canada or theHouse of Commons of Canada.[10]
Moore regained his seat of Fundy Royal, defeating Lockhart, in the2019 Canadian federal election.[11][12]
Moore endorsedPeter MacKay in the2020 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election.[13] He was re-elected in the 2021 federal election.
| 2025 Canadian federal election:Fundy Royal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Conservative | Rob Moore | 25,411 | 53.37 | +7.04 | ||||
| Liberal | Bill Kudla | 19,103 | 40.12 | +14.54 | ||||
| New Democratic | Cindy Andrie | 1,507 | 3.17 | -11.34 | ||||
| Green | Hans Johnsen | 961 | 2.02 | -2.98 | ||||
| People's | Alastair MacFarlane | 629 | 1.32 | -7.26 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 47,611 | 99.51 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 234 | 0.49 | -0.02 | |||||
| Turnout | 47,845 | 76.23 | +10.26 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 62,763 | |||||||
| Conservativenotional hold | Swing | -3.75 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[14][15] | ||||||||
| Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations. | ||||||||
| 2021 Canadian federal election:Fundy Royal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Rob Moore | 21,460 | 48.35 | +2.33 | $75,724.15 | |||
| Liberal | Whitney Dykeman | 11,075 | 24.95 | –0.61 | $42,961.74 | |||
| New Democratic | Josh Floyd | 6,211 | 13.99 | +4.11 | $150.00 | |||
| People's | Wayne Wheeler | 3,447 | 7.77 | +5.20 | none listed | |||
| Green | Tim Thompson | 2,189 | 4.93 | –10.02 | $2,330.78 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 44,382 | 100.00 | – | $108,919.19 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 213 | 0.48 | –0.23 | |||||
| Turnout | 44,595 | 66.72 | –8.67 | |||||
| Registered voters | 66,835 | |||||||
| Conservativehold | Swing | +1.47 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[16] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election:Fundy Royal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Rob Moore | 22,389 | 46.02 | +8.94 | $75,539.19 | |||
| Liberal | Alaina Lockhart | 12,433 | 25.56 | −15.31 | $70,219.03 | |||
| Green | Tim Thompson | 7,275 | 14.95 | +11.06 | $23,925.97 | |||
| New Democratic | James Tolan | 4,804 | 9.88 | −7.65 | $1,955.15 | |||
| People's | Rudy Neumayer | 1,249 | 2.57 | none listed | ||||
| Independent | David Raymond Amos | 295 | 0.61 | −0.03 | none listed | |||
| National Citizens Alliance | John Evans | 201 | 0.41 | none listed | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 48,646 | 99.29 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 349 | 0.71 | +0.02 | |||||
| Turnout | 48,995 | 75.39 | +0.79 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 64,992 | |||||||
| Conservativegain fromLiberal | Swing | +12.13 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[17][18] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election:Fundy Royal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Alaina Lockhart | 19,136 | 40.87 | +30.44 | $44,760.36 | |||
| Conservative | Rob Moore | 17,361 | 37.09 | −20.88 | $94,342.23 | |||
| New Democratic | Jennifer McKenzie | 8,204 | 17.52 | −9.34 | $48,770.66 | |||
| Green | Stephanie Coburn | 1,823 | 3.89 | −0.83 | $1,469.99 | |||
| Independent | David Raymond Amos | 296 | 0.63 | – | – | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 46,820 | 100.0 | $204,844.46 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 241 | 0.51 | ||||||
| Turnout | 47,061 | 75.04 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 62,713 | |||||||
| Liberalgain fromConservative | Swing | +25.66 | ||||||
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| 2011 Canadian federal election:Fundy Royal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Rob Moore | 21,206 | 58.14 | +6.51 | $69,107.44 | |||
| New Democratic | Darryl Pitre | 9,845 | 26.99 | +3.26 | $16,490.62 | |||
| Liberal | Linda Wilhelm | 3,668 | 10.06 | −7.26 | $18,468.64 | |||
| Green | Stephanie Coburn | 1,757 | 4.82 | −2.50 | $4,477.15 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 36,476 | 100.0 | $82,316.67 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 238 | 0.65 | −0.04 | |||||
| Turnout | 36,714 | 64.64 | +3.55 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 56,795 | |||||||
| Conservativehold | Swing | +1.62 | ||||||
| Sources:[19][20] | ||||||||
| 2008 Canadian federal election:Fundy Royal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Rob Moore | 17,220 | 51.63 | +3.29 | $68,450.59 | |||
| New Democratic | Rob Moir | 7,913 | 23.73 | +2.61 | $16,245.21 | |||
| Liberal | Mark Wright | 5,776 | 17.32 | −10.04 | $15,561.21 | |||
| Green | Erik Millett | 2,443 | 7.32 | +4.04 | $67.47 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 33,352 | 100.0 | $79,136 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 233 | 0.69 | ±0 | |||||
| Turnout | 33,585 | 61.09 | −6.77 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 54,978 | |||||||
| Conservativehold | Swing | +0.34 | ||||||
| 2006 Canadian federal election:Fundy Royal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Rob Moore | 17,630 | 48.31 | +3.49 | $64,924.34 | |||
| Liberal | Eldon Hunter | 9,979 | 27.34 | −7.43 | $32,794.75 | |||
| New Democratic | Rob Moir | 7,696 | 21.09 | +4.90 | $8,504.17 | |||
| Green | Patty Donovan | 1,189 | 3.26 | +0.12 | $48.65 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 36,494 | 100.0 | $73,430 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 253 | 0.69 | ±0 | |||||
| Turnout | 36,747 | 67.86 | +5.30 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 54,154 | |||||||
| Conservativehold | Swing | +5.46 | ||||||
| 2004 Canadian federal election:Fundy Royal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Rob Moore | 14,997 | 44.82 | −18.46 | $63,125.86 | |||
| Liberal | John Herron | 11,635 | 34.77 | +5.30 | $52,913.85 | |||
| New Democratic | Pat Hanratty | 5,417 | 16.19 | +8.99 | $2,925.27 | |||
| Green | Karin Bach | 1,051 | 3.14 | – | none listed | |||
| Independent | David Amos | 358 | 1.07 | – | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 33,458 | 100.0 | $71,567 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 231 | 0.69 | ||||||
| Turnout | 33,689 | 62.56 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 54,113 | |||||||
| Conservativenotional gain fromProgressive Conservative | Swing | −11.88 | ||||||
| Changes from 2000 are based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the combination of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals. | ||||||||
| 2000 Canadian federal election:Fundy Royal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | John Herron | 15,279 | 40.51 | −1.01 | ||||
| Liberal | John King | 11,422 | 30.28 | +4.96 | ||||
| Alliance | Rob Moore | 8,392 | 22.25 | −0.68 | ||||
| New Democratic | John Calder | 2,628 | 6.97 | −2.44 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 37,721 | 100.00 | ||||||
Results for the Canadian Alliance from 1997 are based on the results of its predecessor, the Reform Party.
Conservative candidate Rob Moore is in second with 37.1 per cent
