Jenny Kwan | |||||||||||
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.jpg) Kwan in 2024 | |||||||||||
| Member of Parliament for Vancouver East | |||||||||||
| Assumed office October 19, 2015 | |||||||||||
| Preceded by | Libby Davies | ||||||||||
| Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant | |||||||||||
| In office May 28, 1996 – August 4, 2015 | |||||||||||
| Preceded by | Mike Harcourt | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Melanie Mark | ||||||||||
| Minister of Community Development, Cooperatives and Volunteers of British Columbia | |||||||||||
| In office February 29, 2000 – June 5, 2001 | |||||||||||
| Premier | Ujjal Dosanjh | ||||||||||
| Preceded by | Jan Pullinger | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | George Abbott | ||||||||||
| Minister of Women's Equality of British Columbia | |||||||||||
| In office July 21, 1999 – February 24, 2000 | |||||||||||
| Premier | Glen Clark Dan Miller | ||||||||||
| Preceded by | Sue Hammell | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Evelyn Gillespie | ||||||||||
| Minister of Municipal Affairs of British Columbia | |||||||||||
| In office February 18, 1998 – July 21, 1999 | |||||||||||
| Premier | Glen Clark | ||||||||||
| Preceded by | Michael Farnworth | ||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Jim Doyle | ||||||||||
| Personal details | |||||||||||
| Born | Jenny Wai Ching Kwan 1967 (age 57–58) British Hong Kong | ||||||||||
| Political party | New Democratic | ||||||||||
| Spouse |
Dan Small
(m. 2001, divorced) | ||||||||||
| Residence | Vancouver[1] | ||||||||||
| Alma mater | Simon Fraser University (BA) | ||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 關慧貞 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 关慧贞 | ||||||||||
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Jenny Wai Ching Kwan MP (Chinese: 關慧貞; born 1967) is a Canadian politician who is the member of Parliament (MP) for Vancouver East. A member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), Kwan was elected to the House of Commons in 2015.
She was previously a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), representing Vancouver-Mount Pleasant from 1996 to 2015 with the British Columbia (BC) NDP, and together with Liberal MLA Ida Chong became the first Chinese-Canadian members of the BC legislature. Kwan was also the province's first Chinese-Canadian cabinet minister,[2] serving from 1998 to 2001. Kwan entered politics in 1993, when she was elected to the Vancouver City Council.
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