STELLARTON - Nova Scotia's finance minister will be the first guest speaker at the Chamber of Commerce's speaker's forum later this month.
Graham Steele was elected to the Nova Scotia Legislature in a March 2001 by-election and re-elected in 2003, 2006 and 2009.
In June of 2009, he was sworn in as Minister of Finance and Minister of Acadian Affairs.
A Rhodes scholar, originally from Manitoba, Steele came to Halifax in 1986 to attend Dalhousie Law School, graduating in 1989. He practised law there, first in private practice and then as General Counsel to the Workers Compensation Board in 1993.
After further legal studies, he accepted a job as research director for the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party Caucus office in 1998.
Steele is married and a father of two children.
The business breakfast will be held at the Holiday Inn Express in Stellarton on Jan. 29 at 7:30 a.m. The cost is $15 for members and $20 for non-members.
Finance minister coming to town for Chambers speakers forum
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