Joyce Murray is a Canadian politician. She currently represents the electoral district of Vancouver Quadra as a Liberal Member of the Canadian House of Commons, and was previously a BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2001 to 2005.
First elected to the provincial legislature in the 2001 provincial election, she was the first Liberal in 49 years to be elected to the electoral district of New Westminster. She serv...
more
Joyce Murray is a Canadian politician. She currently represents the electoral district of Vancouver Quadra as a Liberal Member of the Canadian House of Commons, and was previously a BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2001 to 2005.
First elected to the provincial legislature in the 2001 provincial election, she was the first Liberal in 49 years to be elected to the electoral district of New Westminster. She served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a cabinet minister from 2001 to 2005, serving as Minister of Water, Land and Air Protection to January 2004 and as Minister of Management Services until June 2005.
As Minister of Water, Land, and Air Protection, she worked with environmental advocates, tourism associations and regional organizations to complete the protecton of Spruce Lake Park, and also raised provincial fees for industrial and municipal waste discharges by 48 per cent. In the first sitting of the new cabinet, also the...
less
