Kelly Greene is a Canadian politician who was elected to the

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in the

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. She represents the electoral district of Richmond-Steveston as a member of the

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(BC NDP). She also serves as Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness for

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. From 2018 to 2020 she served as a

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Biography

Born in

, Greene grew up in the community of Steveston and went to

Hugh Boyd Secondary School Hugh Boyd Secondary School (H.B.S.S. or HBSS), commonly known as Hugh Boyd or Boyd is a public, co-educational secondary school part of School District 38 Richmond (SD38), serving and educating 599 (2022–2023) students from grades 8 to 12. Hugh ...

. She attended the

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, graduating with a bachelor of arts in 2002, then worked for accounting and banking firms. In 2016 she became involved in a local parent group against school closures in Richmond, leading her to consider entering politics. In the 2017 provincial election she ran for the NDP in Richmond-Steveston, placing second against incumbent Liberal candidate John Yap. She was then elected to the Richmond City Council in the 2018 municipal election. Greene contested the riding of Richmond-Steveston as an NDP candidate again in the 2020 provincial election, this time winning the seat by taking 52% of the vote, ahead of Liberal candidate Matt Pitcairn. On November 16, 2020, she resigned her city council role to become a

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(MLA). She was named Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment by

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John Horgan on November 26, 2020, supporting Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy George Heyman. On December 7, 2022 she was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries and Aquaculture by Premier

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, supporting Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship

Nathan Cullen Nathan Paul Cullen (born July 13, 1972) is a Canadian politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (MLA) representing the riding of Stikine (provincial electoral district), Stikine from 2020 to 2024 as a memb ...

Electoral history

Provincial elections

Municipal elections

''Top 8 candidates elected — Incumbents marked with "(X)". Elected members' names are in bold ''

References

External links

* 21st-century Canadian women politicians British Columbia New Democratic Party MLAs Women MLAs in British Columbia Living people Richmond, British Columbia city councillors University of British Columbia alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia Women municipal councillors in British Columbia {{NDP-BritishColumbia-MLA-stub