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Encyclopedia > Jenny Wai Ching Kwan

Jenny Wai Ching Kwan is a Chinese-born Canadian politician. She is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for the NDP.


Kwan emigrated to Canada at age 9. 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 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. She remained in cabinet from 1998 to 2001, going on to serve as Minister of Women’s Equality and 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.


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Jenny Kwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (287 words)
She graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor of Arts in criminology and was as a community legal advocate in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Kwan, along with Joy MacPhail, was one of two NDP MLAs to survive the electoral wipeout of 2001.
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.
Welcome to the New Democratic Party of British Columbia (197 words)
Jenny Kwan was first elected as the MLA for Vancouver Mount Pleasant in 1996, becoming one of the first Chinese-Canadian women to sit in BC's Legislative Assembly.
Jenny was elected to Vancouver City Council in 1993 --becoming the youngest councillor in Vancouver’s history -- and served for three years as the sole representative of Vancouver's progressive municipal political party, COPE.
Jenny is married and lives in East Vancouver with her husband, daughter and stepson.
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