When was christy clark elected premier

BC Liberal leader stepping down after election night loss. Horgan promises to work across party lines after winning majority. Election Here are the results for all 87 ridings. Interactive map: Here's a look at how B. She says the upcoming leadership race is crucial for the Liberals. Clark hopes the leadership race attracts people who aren't currently Liberal MLAs.

Sesame Street's Big Bird criticized for pro-vaccine stance. Veterans in Iqaluit brave cold temperatures in ceremony. Excited dachshund frolics in neck-deep Sask. Residing in Langford, Premier Horgan is a proud husband and father of two.

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Northern B. It shaped her later view that job creation was one of the single most important goals of a government. When she was 13, in , Clark was dragged into the bushes by an unknown man while walking to her job as a dishwasher at a Burnaby restaurant. Clark eventually escaped.

I want women who have never said anything about sexual violence in their lives to know they are not alone. In she was elected president of the Simon Fraser Student Society, until being disqualified shortly afterwards for having broken campaign rules.

Clark went on to serve as a political staffer for the Liberal Opposition in the legislature in Victoria , and federally for the Liberal Party as well.

Marissen and Clark would work for the federal Liberals together in Ottawa. They married in and had a son together in The couple separated in and later divorced, but Marissen remained a fierce public defender of his ex-wife during her entire political career. Clark was first elected to the BC legislature as a Liberal in in the riding of Port Moody-Burnaby Mountain, and quickly earned a strong reputation as an opposition critic.

In , when the Liberals formed government under Premier Gordon Campbell , she was named education minister and deputy premier.

Around the same time, Clark became the first politician in BC history to have a baby while serving in Cabinet. She took her new son, Hamish, to work with her at the legislature, sometimes nursing him during breaks from Cabinet meetings. In , Campbell appointed Clark as minister of children and family development, a difficult post that appeared to sideline her political ambitions. In , she quit politics, saying she wanted to spend more time with Hamish.

She then ran unsuccessfully for the nomination of a right-leaning municipal party, the Non-Partisan Association, in the upcoming Vancouver mayoral election. Fact Check: Promises, promises — last election's 'epic fail'. May Despite trailing the NDP by as much as 20 points during the campaign, Clark and the Liberals win a fourth straight majority on election night.

Clark becomes B. April The B. Teachers Federation begins a months-long strike, resulting in the cancellation of many weeks at the end and beginning of the school year before it is resolved on September Liberal party is paying her on top of her government salary. In both cases, Clark eventually reverses course.

Province to tax foreign buyers of Metro Vancouver homes. February With GDP growth the highest in the country, Clark's government tables a fifth straight balanced budget , which includes cutting MSP premiums in half.

Despite continued positive top-line economic news, she remains neck and neck in the polls with NDP Leader John Horgan.