- Jenny Kwan
"For the
California Dreams actress, please seeJennie Kwan "Jenny Wai Ching Kwan （Chinese: 關慧貞;
pinyin : Guān Hùizhēn）is a Chinese-born Canadianpolitician . She is currently a member of theLegislative Assembly of British Columbia for the NDP.Kwan emigrated to
Canada at age 9 fromHong Kong . She graduated fromSimon Fraser University with a Bachelor of Arts incriminology and was as a community legal advocate inVancouver 'sDowntown 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 provincialpolitics , successfully winning the East Vancouver seat ofVancouver-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 party's electoral wipeout of 2001. She has since served as the chair of the standing committee on public accounts in thelegislature .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 .Between elections, Kwan was invited by director
Ling Chiu to play the part of "eldest sister" in the 2004 short film "A Fortune In Frozen Dim Sum".External links
* [http://www.leg.bc.ca/mla/38thparl/kwan.htm Jenny Wai Ching Kwan]
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