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Ex-Conservative cabinet minister Keith Ashfield dies, remembered as ‘champion of New Brunswick’

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Former Conservative cabinet minister Keith Ashfield died over the weekend in his sleep of what his former executive assistant said may have been a heart attack. The Hill Times file photograph Andrew Meade

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BY SHRUTI SHEKAR

April 25, 2018

Keith Ashfield, a former Conservative federal and provincial cabinet minister, died in his sleep this past weekend at the age of 66.

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