Jenny Kwan | |||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
British Columbia Minister of Community Development, Cooperatives and Volunteers | |||||||||||
In office February 29, 2000 – June 5, 2001 | |||||||||||
Premier | Ujjal Dosanjh | ||||||||||
Preceded by | Jan Pullinger | ||||||||||
Succeeded by | George Abbott | ||||||||||
British Columbia Minister of Women's Equality | |||||||||||
In office July 21, 1999 – February 24, 2000 | |||||||||||
Premier | Glen Clark Dan Miller | ||||||||||
Preceded by | Penny Priddy | ||||||||||
Succeeded by | Evelyn Gillespie | ||||||||||
British Columbia Minister of Municipal Affairs | |||||||||||
In office February 18, 1998 – July 21, 1999 | |||||||||||
Premier | Glen Clark | ||||||||||
Preceded by | Michael Farnworth | ||||||||||
Succeeded by | Jim Doyle | ||||||||||
Personal details | |||||||||||
Born | 1967 (age 56–57) British Hong Kong | ||||||||||
Political party | New Democratic | ||||||||||
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 was a provincial cabinet minister from 1998 to 2001. Kwan entered politics in 1993, when she was elected to the Vancouver City Council.