Gerald Keddy
Gerald Gordon Keddy (born February 15, 1953 in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian politician.
Keddy is a current member of the Conservative Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of South Shore from 1997 to 2004 and South Shore—St. Margaret's since 2004. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party before 2004. Keddy is a former Christmas tree grower, and offshore drill operator. He has served as the Whip and the Deputy Whip of the Progressive Conservative Party, and has served as critic of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Natural Resources, Fisheries and Oceans, Public Accounts, Parliamentary Affairs, and Library of Parliament. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans, which is of utmost importance to his rural fishing constituency. He also served as a school board trustee in New Ross, Nova Scotia.
He is one of only a handful of Conservative MPs to support same sex marriage. His stance on this issue cost him a small amount of votes in the western portion of his riding in the 2006 election (and produced the best result in Canada for the Christian Heritage Party in that election), however he garnered his highest vote total to date in this election due to a spillover of votes from the Liberals.
His fiancée, Judy Streatch, is a Nova Scotia MLA.