Kaycee Madu

Kaycee Madu
Deputy Premier of Alberta
In office
October 24, 2022 – June 9, 2023
Serving with Nathan Neudorf
PremierDanielle Smith
Preceded bySarah Hoffman (2016)
Succeeded byMike Ellis
Minister of Skilled Trades and Professions
In office
October 24, 2022 – June 9, 2023
PremierDanielle Smith
Preceded byHimself (as minister of Labour and Immigration)
Succeeded byMatt Jones (as Minister of Jobs, Economy and Trade)
Minister of Labour and Immigration
In office
February 25, 2022 – October 24, 2022
PremierJason Kenney
Preceded byTyler Shandro
Succeeded byHimself (as minister of Skilled Trades and Professions)
Rajan Sawhney (as minister of Trade, Immigration and Multiculturalism)
Minister of Justice and Solicitor General
In office
August 25, 2020 – February 25, 2022[a]
PremierJason Kenney
Preceded byDoug Schweitzer
Succeeded byTyler Shandro
Minister of Municipal Affairs
In office
April 30, 2019 – August 25, 2020
PremierJason Kenney
Preceded byShaye Anderson
Succeeded byTracy Allard
Member of the
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
for Edmonton-South West
In office
April 16, 2019 – May 1, 2023
Preceded byThomas Dang
Succeeded byNathan Ip
Personal details
Born
Kelechi Madu

1973 or 1974 (age 50–51)
Mbaise, Imo State, Nigeria
Political partyUnited Conservative Party
Residence(s)Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Occupation
  • Lawyer
  • politician

Kelechi "Kaycee" Madu KC ECA (born 1973 or 1974)[1] is a Canadian lawyer and politician. As a member of the United Conservative Party (UCP), Madu represented Edmonton-South West in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2019 to 2023. He was elected in the 2019 provincial election. He was Alberta's minister of municipal affairs from 2019 to 2020, minister of justice and solicitor general of Alberta from 2020 to 2022 (the first Black person to serve as a provincial minister of justice in Canada).

Madu was shuffled to the labour and immigration portfolio in 2022 after a probe into a phone call he made to Edmonton's chief of police after receiving a traffic ticket. The probe found that Madu had not interfered in the administration of justice, but that his phone call to the chief of police created a "reasonable perception of interference".

Following the election of Danielle Smith as leader of the UCP and her appointment as premier, Madu was named her deputy premier. He served in this role from October 24, 2022. Madu lost his seat in the assembly in the 2023 Alberta general election to school trustee Nathan Ip


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  1. ^ Paige Parsons (2019-04-10). "Alberta Election 2019 riding profile: Edmonton-South West". Edmonton Journal. Retrieved 2019-04-17.