Mark Allan Robinson

Mark Robinson
Personal details
Born (1975-01-20) January 20, 1975 (age 49)
Penticton, BC
OccupationCommunity support worker

Mark Allan Robinson (born January 20, 1975) was the proponent of the first recall petition in Canadian history that reached the required threshold to remove an elected politician. The recall petition was to force a by-election in the riding that Paul Reitsma represented. While the threshold was met, Reitsma resigned before it was made official.[1]

Mark Robinson was born in Penticton, BC and moved to Nanaimo, BC at a young age. He has been politically active from the age of 18, sitting on various local government committees and boards of directors for non-profit organizations. For over ten years during the 2000s, he taught ESL. Since then, he has worked as a front-line community support worker. He is a single father with three daughters.

In the 1996 British Columbia general election, Robinson ran as a candidate for the Green Party in the Parksville-Qualicum riding. More recently, on October 15, 2022, he was elected as a school trustee for the School District 68 Nanaimo-Ladysmith.[2]

  1. ^ "Trustees Mark Robinson". Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools. Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
  2. ^ Sakaki, Greg; Yu, Karl. "Incumbent trustees top the polls, but Nanaimo-Ladysmith school board has 5 new additions". Nanaimo New Bulletin. Black Press Media. Retrieved February 26, 2023.