1. David Charles Coon was born on October 28,1956 and is a Canadian conservationist and politician who has served as leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick since 2012 and as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for Fredericton South since 2014.
David Coon later graduated from McGill University and received a diploma from Vanier College, and began working with the Conservation Council of New Brunswick.
David Coon joined the 58th Legislature after being elected to represent the newly contested provincial electoral district of Fredericton South in 2014, becoming the first ever Green legislative member in New Brunswick and the second provincial Green politician in Canada to win a seat in a provincial legislature.
David Coon was re-elected in 2018 and again in 2020.
David Charles Coon was born on October 28,1956, in Toronto, Ontario, the eldest child of Charles Coon and Iris Page.
David Coon spent his childhood in Montreal, Quebec, where he graduated from high school.
David Coon later attended McGill University, primarily studying ecology, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1978.
In 1985, David Coon later moved to New Brunswick and started working with the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, serving as its policy director.
David Coon worked as an environmental educator, organizer, activist and manager for 33 years, 28 of those years with the CCNB.
David Coon has advocated for community-based ecological resource management and land use.
David Coon worked with commercial fishermen's organizations to establish the Bay of Fundy Fisheries Council to advance community-based fishery management.
David Coon was a founding director of Canada's first community supported agricultural initiative, Harvest Share Co-operative on Keswick Ridge, and co-founded the New Brunswick Community Land Trust.
In 2008, David Coon began serving as the CCNB's executive director.
Out of the 208 votes cast between both candidates, David Coon received 131 votes and was elected as the provincial Green Party leader, succeeding interim leader Greta Doucet.
In 2013, following the opening of a Starbucks in Moncton which only had English menus, David Coon advocated for sign legislation similar to that enforced in the neighbouring, largely-Francophone city of Dieppe, which would, due to New Brunswick's official bilingual status, require for international businesses to include both English and French signage.
David Coon became New Brunswick's first Green legislative member, and the second member of a provincial Green Party to win a seat in a provincial legislature, following Andrew Weaver in British Columbia.
David Coon has championed improving access to both mental and primary health care, alleviating poverty, the provision of midwifery services, climate action, and forest management that is socially and ecologically sound.
In 2015, David Coon attended the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference under the invitation of Brian Gallant.
David Coon has served as a member of the Standing Committee on Estimates and Fiscal Policy, the Standing Committee on Procedure, Privileges and Legislative Officers, and the Legislative Administration Committee.
David Coon served as a member of the Select Committee on Climate Change, whose recommendations formed the basis of New Brunswick's Climate Action Plan.
David Coon was re-elected to Fredericton South in the 2018 provincial election, with his party electing two more MLAs: Kevin Arseneau in the riding of Kent North and Megan Mitton in the riding of Memramcook-Tantramar.
In September 2023, David Coon appointed both Arseneau and Mitton as deputy leaders for the Green Party.