Yvonne Jones is a Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Jones is a former leader of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador and Leader of the Official Opposition in the House of Assembly. In 2003, she served as Minister of Fisheries in Premier Roger Grimes government. She currently represents the district of Cartwright-L'Anse au Clair and is the Official Opposition House Leader in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.
Jones was one of only three Liberal Members of the House of Assembly (MHA) re-elected in the 2007 provincial election. Following the election she was chosen to serve as interim leader of the party and Leader of the Official Opposition. On July 30, 2010, Jones was acclaimed Liberal leader after she was the only person to file nomination papers for the position. She was expected to be sworn in as leader at the party's convention in November of that year, however the convention was delayed when Jones announced in August that she would be taking a leave of absence from her position to undergo treatment for breast cancer. She returned to work in early 2011, and was sworn in as Liberal leader at the party's Spring leadership convention. However, on August 9, two months before the provincial election, Jones announced that she was resigning as leader due to a slower recovery from breast cancer than she expected. She sought re-election in her district during the 2011 provincial election, and won 71 per cent of the popular vote.
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“Men’s hearts are cold. They are indifferent. Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. It remains indifferent to the lives of those who risk their life and health down in the blackness of the earth; who crawl through dark, choking crevices with only a bit of lamp on their caps to light their silent way; whose backs are bent with toil, whose very bones ache, whose happiness is sleep, and whose peace is death.”
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