Barry Barnet

Hammonds Plains - Upper Sackville
Phone: 864-8669 (Office)
864-8666 (Home)
Fax: 864-8781
e-mail: barry.barnet@ns.sympatico.ca 
Minister of Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations
Minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs
Minister responsible for the Residential Tenancies Act
MLA for Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville

Birth:
June 13, 1961 in Halifax.

Education:
Graduate of Sackville High School; Local Government Management at the Banff Institute

Employment History:
Real estate agent

Political Career:
Elected Halifax County councillor in 1993; elected councillor for new Halifax Regional Municipality in 1995. First elected to Legislative Assembly in July 1999, re-elected in August 2003.

Community Involvement:
Served on the Sackville Planning Advisory Committee, the Cobequid Multi-Service Centre Foundation and the Halifax County Board of Health. Founding member of the Sackville Rivers Association and served as chair of the Landfill Compensation Implementation Committee and Halifax County Planning Committee

Family:
Married to Edna Barnet; two sons