Doug Donaldson | |
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.jpg) Donaldson in 2017 | |
| Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development of British Columbia | |
| In office July 18, 2017 – November 26, 2020 | |
| Premier | John Horgan |
| Preceded by | John Rustad(Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations)/Donna Barnett (Rural Development) |
| Succeeded by | Katrine Conroy |
| Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for Stikine | |
| In office May 12, 2009 – October 24, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Dennis MacKay |
| Succeeded by | Nathan Cullen |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 20, 1957 |
| Political party | New Democrat |
| Residence | Hazelton |
| Occupation | Politician, journalist |
Doug Donaldson (born January 20, 1957) is a Canadian politician, who represented the Stikine electoral district Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2009 to 2020. He is a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party and was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly in the 2009 election and re-elected in the 2013 and 2017 elections. During the 41st Parliament (2017-2020) he served in the Executive Council as the Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, and Rural Development. In that role he led the government through adopted several bills including amending the Heritage Conservation Act to create a legal duty-to-report discoveries of specific sites or objects with potential heritage value and amending the Forest Act to insert consideration of the "public interest" in decisions to approve the forestry dispositions. As a member of the official opposition in the 39th and 40th Parliaments he served in various critic and deputy roles at different times, such as on issues relating to mines, energy, finance and children and family development issues. He introduced one private member bill to amend the Oil and Gas Activities Act to prohibit the conversion of natural gas pipelines to transmit oil or diluted bitumen.
Prior to becoming an MLA, Donaldson had lived in numerous towns in British Columbia, including Field, British Columbia where he worked in Yoho National Park, Prince George, Telkwa, Houston, and Smithers. He eventually settled in Hazelton where he worked with the Gitxsan Nation and ran a non-profit organization, the Storytellers Foundation, which focused on community-level economic development. He spent ten years as a municipal councillor, having been elected or acclaimed in the 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2009 local government elections.