Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Steve Craig | |
Birth Name: | Stephen Allen Craig |
Birth Date: | 1955 |
Honorific-Suffix: | MLA |
Assembly: | Nova Scotia House of |
Constituency Am: | Sackville-Cobequid |
Term Start: | June 18, 2019 |
Predecessor: | Dave Wilson |
Office2: | Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture |
Term Start2: | 31 August 2021 |
Term End2: | 14 September 2023 |
Stephen Allen Craig (born 1955)[1] is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in a by-election on June 18, 2019. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he represents the electoral district of Sackville-Cobequid.[2] [3]
Craig had previously sat on Halifax Regional Council, representing Lower Sackville since the 2012 Halifax Regional Municipality municipal election.
On August 31, 2021, Craig was made Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture.[4]
On September 13, 2023, Craig announced he would not run in the next Nova Scotia general election,[5] and was shuffled out of cabinet the following day.[6]
Craig and his wife Shari live in Lower Sackville. They have two children, Marlo and Jonathan.[7]
|- |New Democratic Party|Dave Wilson|align="right"|4,477|align="right"|54.50|align="right"|+9.12|- |Progressive Conservative|Steve Craig|align="right"|2,499|align="right"|30.42|align="right"|+2.05|- |Liberal|David Major|align="right"|1,051|align="right"|12.80|align="right"|-12.31|-|}