Robert Andrew Keith Scott PC (March 16, 1955 – June 24, 2013) was a Liberal Member of Parliament who represented the electoral district of Fredericton from 1993 to 2008.
[4] In 1998, New Democratic Party MP Dick Proctor said he overheard Scott on an airplane talking about several sensitive national matters, including the then-ongoing Vancouver Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) inquiry.
Scott was alleged to have stated that several Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers (who had used pepper spray against protesters) would take the blame at the end of it all.
[5][6] In an incident in the fall of 2003, Scott was hospitalised after being physically assaulted by a constituent angry over his government's support for same-sex marriage.
[9] On October 22, 2008, it was announced that Andy Scott would assume a research post in social policy at the University of New Brunswick.