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| Affiliation | Independent |
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| Name | George Abbott |
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Sicamous, British Columbia , Canada |
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| Info | George Abbott is a BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. He represents the riding of Shuswap, which he has held since 1996. He was re-elected three times in 2001, 2005, and most recently on May 12, 2009.
George Abbott has held five cabinet posts since taking office in 1996, spanning a number of significant portfolios. Most recently, he was appointed Minister of Education and Deputy House Leader on October 25, 2010.
Previous to that appointment, he served as Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation, Minister of Health, Minister of Sustainable Resource Management and Minister of Community, Aboriginal and Women’s Services. In Opposition, he served as critic for municipal affairs and forests.
George has served in public life for 30 years. He was first elected to the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District in 1980 and appointed Chair in 1985, where he remained acclaimed in that role for 10 years.
He was then elected as a councillor for the District of Sicamous in 1990. Prior to his election to the Legislative Assembly in 1996, George was a political science instructor at Okanagan University College. During this entire time, George also owned the oldest and largest berry farm in the Interior.
George received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia and his Master of Arts in British Columbian and Canadian politics from the University of Victoria.
George has also been highly involved in amateur sports as a minor hockey coach. Some of the players he coached as kids now play in the National Hockey League, while one also played on Team Canada in the last Winter Olympic Games.
George and his wife Lesley have three children.
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