Doucet lives in St. George, with his wife and two children, Nicole and Jonathan.
Career
Doucet has had a varied career working in the air industry both as a marketing and sales official with a commercial airline and later as a cargo pilot. He started his own series of businesses in 1989 working simultaneously in the restaurant, photography, and advertising industries.
Doucet received favourable media attention when shortly following his appointment as Energy Critic, he toured the province to visit all of its power generation facilities at his own expense.
He was re-elected in the 2006 election following which he joined the cabinet. On October 3, 2006, he was sworn in as Minister of Fisheries under the Shawn Graham government. He maintained this role throughout all of the four years the Liberals were in government.
Despite the losses received by the Shawn Graham Liberals in the 2010 provincial election, Doucet retained his seat, beating out the Progressive Conservative candidate Sharon Tucker. Doucet would sit in Opposition from 2010 to 2014, with his riding remaining the only Liberal controlled riding in southwestern New Brunswick. During his time in Opposition, Doucet was critic, at various periods, of Energy, Transportation and Public Safety. As critic for Public Safety, Doucet was very vocal in his displeasure with the Government's reaction to the flooding of December 2010 and Hurricane Arthur in July 2014.
In the 2014 election, Doucet's riding was affected by the 2013 electoral redistribution in New Brunswick. For this election, Doucet's principal challenger was incumbent Progressive Conservative MLA Jim Parrott. On September 22, 2014, Doucet was re-elected for a 4th consecutive time.
On September 5, 2017, a cabinet portfolio rearrangement by the Gallant government had Mr. Doucet in charge of Aquaculture and Fisheries, as well as Energy and Resource Development
References
MLA Biography, Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
Rick Doucet.com
New Brunswick provincial government of Shawn Graham
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