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MLA: Hon. Mike Farnworth

Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General and Deputy Premier
Port Coquitlam
Elected 1991, 1996, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2020
BC NDP

Office:

Room 128 Parliament Buildings
Victoria, BC  V8V 1X4
PSSG.Minister@gov.bc.ca
Phone: (250) 356-2178
Fax: (250) 356-2965

Constituency:

107A-2748 Lougheed Hwy
Port Coquitlam, BC   V3B 6P2
mike.farnworth.MLA@leg.bc.ca

Phone: (604) 927-2088
Fax: (604) 927-2090
Toll Free Phone:

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Mike Farnworth was re-elected as MLA for Port Coquitlam in 2020. He was first elected as MLA for Port Coquitlam-Burke Mountain in 1991, and re-elected in 1996, 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017. He is the Deputy Premier and Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General.

Mike served as the Official Opposition critic for Justice (Public Safety and Solicitor General), and as the Official Opposition Caucus House Leader.

Mike was raised in Port Coquitlam and has lived there for more than 40 years. He earned a bachelor's degree in geography at Simon Fraser University, and was elected to Port Coquitlam city council for three terms in 1983, 1985 and 1990.

As MLA, he served in numerous cabinet positions, including Minister of Health, and Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.

From 2001 to 2004, Mike worked in Bulgaria, the Balkans and then Iraq on democratic governance programs to help build multiparty democracies in former one-party states.

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