Paul Lane is a Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, who represents the electoral district of Mount Pearl South in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.First elected in the 2011 provincial election as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador, on January 20, 2014 he crossed the floor to the Liberal Party to protest the leadership of Premier Kathy Dunderdale.Born and raised in St.