Doug Donaldson

Doug Donaldson is a Canadian politician. He is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia and a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly from the riding of Stikine in the 2009 provincial election and reelected in the 2013 election. During the 39th Parliament of British Columbia he served as deputy chair of the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services which did public consultation regarding government budget and spending priorities. With his party forming the Official Opposition in the 39th Parliament, Donaldson has served as the critic of Mines since July 2012, deputy critic on Energy since April 2011, as well as deputy critic on Finance between June 2009 and July 2012. During the 40th Parliament, beginning in 2013 he was reassigned to be the critic for aboriginal relations and reconciliation.

With his father working in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Doug Donaldson was born in 1957 at the Canadian Forces Zweibrcken Air Base in Germany. Donaldson completed a bachelors degree in Biology and moved to Field, British Columbia where he worked in Yoho National Park foryears before leading private guided tours of the area. After completing a Masters in Journalism he had numerous articles published in the Calgary Herald and The Vancouver Sun but moved to Smithers where he wrote for a local newspaper, The Interior News. He took a job in Prince George with the CBC Morning Show but moved back to the Bulkley Valley area, living in Telkwa as a technologist in the forestry industry before moving to Houston working as a manager at Northwest Community College. Finally, Donaldson settled in Hazelton where he became the communications officer for the Gitxsan Treaty Office. In 1992, he starting teaching journalism at the Gitxsan Wetsuweten Education Society. In 1994, he cofounded the nonprofi

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