Seamus O'Regan

He was re-elected in the 2019 federal election. Following the election, he was appointed Minister of Natural Resources.

In November 2017, he was hospitalized in Ottawa for a major gastrointestinal obstruction.

In January 2016, O’Regan announced that he entered an alcoholism rehabilitation program.

In September 2014, O'Regan was nominated as the Liberal Party candidate in the Newfoundland and Labrador riding of St. John's South—Mount Pearl for the 2015 federal election. On October 19, 2015, O'Regan won the election, defeating New Democrat incumbent Ryan Cleary. He was appointed to the cabinet on August 28, 2017 as the Minister of Veterans Affairs and on January 14, 2019 was made the Minister of Indigenous Services, vacating his previous post.

On July 9, 2010, he married his longtime partner, Steve Doussis, in Newfoundland.

In 2000, O'Regan joined talktv's current affairs program, the chatroom. He began his duties at Canada AM on December 19, 2001. On November 8, 2011, he announced that he would be leaving Canada AM on November 24, 2011 to become a correspondent for CTV National News. O'Regan left CTV in 2012. Since leaving CTV he has occasionally been a fill-in host on radio station CFRB in Toronto, and worked on independent television productions and as a media innovator in residence at Ryerson University. O'Regan is also the executive vice president for communications of the Stronach Group.

In December 1999, O'Regan was named as one of Maclean's 100 Young Canadians to Watch in the 21st century.

Seamus Thomas Harris O'Regan PC MP (born January 18, 1971) is a Canadian politician and former television personality from Newfoundland and Labrador. He currently serves as Minister of Natural Resources and formerly served as Minister of Indigenous Services and Minister of Veterans Affairs. He was a correspondent with CTV National News, and a former host of Canada AM, which he co-hosted from 2003 to 2011 with Beverly Thomson.