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Jenny Kwan Wikipedia

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Jenny Wai Ching Kwan ???????????????is a China|Chinese-born Canada|Canadian politician. She is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for the New Democratic Party of British Columbia|NDP.

Kwan emigrated to Canada at age 9 from China. She graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor of Arts in criminology and worked as a community legal counsel in the Downtown Eastside.

In 1993, Kwan became the youngest-ever member of Vancouver City Council. She was the sole representative of the Coalition of Progressive Electors|COPE party throughout her term on council. In 1996 she moved to provincial politics, successfully winning the East Vancouver seat of Vancouver???Mount Pleasant for the NDP.

After two years in a variety of parliamentary secretary positions, Kwan was promoted to cabinet as Minister of Municipal Affairs (British Columbia)|Minister of Municipal Affairs. She remained in cabinet from 1998 to 2001, going on to serve as Minister of Women???s Equality (British Columbia)|Minister of Women???s Equality and Minister of Community Development, Cooperatives and Volunteers (British Columbia)|Minister of Community Development, Cooperatives and Volunteers.

Kwan, along with Joy MacPhail, was one of two NDP MLAs to survive the electoral wipeout of 2001. She has since served as the chair of the standing committee on public accounts in the legislature.

Kwan, as expected by many pundits, got re-elected in the 2005 British Columbia Provincial Election, she was one of only 2 MLA's from the New Democratic Party to face re-election. The other was Jagrup Brar.

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Member of Legislative Assembly for British Columbia provincial riding - Vancouver-Mount Pleasant|Vancouver-Mount Pleasant <br> (1981-1994)

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Category:British Columbia MLAs|Kwan, Jenny
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Last Modified:   2005-11-07