- Carole Taylor
Carole Taylor, MLA, OC (born 1945) is a
Canadian journalist andpolitician . She previosuly served asBritish Columbia 's Minister of Finance.Carole Taylor graduated from
Weston Collegiate in 1964. She later attended Victoria College at theUniversity of Toronto and graduated with a BA in English.Careole was Miss Toronto 1964, and co-hosted CFTO-TV Toronto’s
After Four , a show for teenagers. She later appeared on several other CFTO shows, including Toronto Today, Topic, and her own Carole Taylor Show. She andPercy Saltzman were the first co-hosts of "Canada AM " when the show premiered on CTV in 1972. She has also been the host of "W-FIVE " and "Pacific Report". Later, she entered the field of journalism which lasted for over 20 years.Previously, she served as an independent member of
Vancouver City Council from 1986 to 1990. She served as Chairman of theVancouver Board of Trade 2001-2002.She was
chair of theCanadian Broadcasting Corporation fromJuly 16 ,2001 , untilMarch 14 ,2005 , when she resigned in order to seek the nomination of theBritish Columbia Liberal Party in that province's 2005 election.On
May 17 ,2005 , she was elected toLegislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2005 election as the member representingVancouver-Langara . OnJune 16 ,2005 , she was namedMinister of Finance .As the
Minister of Finance , she signed up 100% of all BC public sector contracts before they were set to expire. Perhaps her most notable achievement was the introduction of the firstcarbon tax anywhere in North America.On November 30, 2007, she announced that she would not be running for re-election in the 2009 election. She was courted to run for mayor of Vancouver in the 2008 municipal election, she announced on January 8, 2008 that she would not run. She is married to former Vancouver mayor
Art Phillips .External links
* [http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/personalities/personalities.php?id=368/ Biography at Canadian Communications Foundation]
* [http://www.legis.gov.bc.ca/mla/38thParl/taylor.htm Biography at Legislative Assembly of British Columbia]
* [http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-VVK1aOUx0EfNC1N0ut7wBk5yUg Carole Taylor announces she won't seek second term]
* [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080108.BCTAYLOR08/TPStory/National Taylor says she won't run for mayor of Vancouver]
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