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Jenny Wai Ching Kwan Template:Post-nominals (Template:Lang-zh; born 1967) is a Canadian politician who is the member of Parliament (MP) for Vancouver East. A member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), Kwan was first elected to the House of Commons in 2015.

She was previously a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (MLA), representing Vancouver-Mount Pleasant from 1996 to 2015 with the British Columbia (BC) NDP, and together with Liberal MLA Ida Chong became the first Chinese-Canadian members of the BC legislature. Kwan was also the province's first Chinese-Canadian cabinet minister,<ref name="BCParl37"/> serving from 1998 to 2001. Kwan entered politics in 1993, when she was elected to the Vancouver City Council.

Background

Kwan immigrated to Canada at age nine with her family from British Hong Kong.<ref name="legbc_kwan" /> She speaks English, French, and Cantonese. She graduated from Simon Fraser University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts in criminology,<ref name="SFU">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> then started her career as a community legal advocate in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside before entering politics.<ref name="legbc_kwan" />

She married Dan Small in 2001;<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> they have two children together.<ref name="legbc_kwan"/> After separating from Small, Kwan moved to Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood with her children in 2013.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Political career

Municipal politics (1993–1996)

In 1993, Kwan at age 26 was elected as the youngest-ever member of Vancouver City Council. She was the sole representative of the Coalition of Progressive Electors throughout her term on council.<ref name="legbc_kwan">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Provincial politics (1996–2015)

In the 1996 British Columbia general election, Kwan entered provincial politics. After being nominated, she was elected as the MLA for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, in East Vancouver.<ref name="legbc_kwan"/> She succeeded Premier Mike Harcourt, who at the time had just resigned over a series of serious fundraising scandals, including Bingogate. She served as the government caucus deputy whip, parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Health, and member of the Select Standing Committee for Public Accounts in the 36th Parliament.<ref name="BCParl37">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was named Minister of Municipal Affairs by Premier Glen Clark in February 1998, and was re-assigned as Minister of Women's Equality in July 1999.<ref name="ClarkCabinet">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> After Ujjal Dosanjh took over as premier in February 2000, Kwan was named Minister of Community Development, Cooperatives and Volunteers.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2001, Kwan, along with Joy MacPhail, was one of only two NDP MLAs to survive the party's electoral collapse in the 2001 British Columbia general election due to a BC Liberal landslide upset.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="James Leadership">Template:Cite news</ref> She served as a member of the Select Standing Committee on Education and chair of the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts in the 37th Parliament.<ref name="BCParl37"/> She was re-elected in 2005, 2009, and 2013,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> continuing to serve as an opposition MLA.

Leadership controversy, December 2010

In December 2010, Kwan released a statement to the media criticizing NDP leader Carole James, and calling for an immediate leadership convention, after party candidates suffered defeat in the 2009 election.<ref name="James Leadership" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In response to Kwan's statement, James called an emergency caucus session to address opposition to her continued leadership.<ref name="Kwan wait and see">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Before the caucus meeting was held, however, James announced her resignation as party leader.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> While Kwan was accused of self-interest, at the time she claimed to have no plans to run for the leadership of the party.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Portland Hotel Society controversy, March 2014

In March 2014, an audit of the Portland Hotel Society showed that Kwan's ex-husband, Dan Small, had improperly expensed the cost of a family Disneyland trip to the society.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> At the time of the trip, Kwan had still been married to Small and had participated in the trip with their children.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> When the audit became public, Kwan held a press conference where she denied any knowledge that the society had paid for the trip, and said she would reimburse the society.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Following the conference, Kwan took a brief leave of absence.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Member of Parliament (2015–present)

In January 2015, Kwan announced her plan to seek the NDP nomination in Vancouver East for the forthcoming federal election, after NDP MP Libby Davies, who had served since 1997, chose not to seek another term.<ref name="SeekingNom">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Mable Elmore, her legislative colleague from Vancouver-Kensington, was also seeking the party's nomination in the riding.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Supporters of Kwan's candidacy included Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs president Stewart Philip, Chinese Freemasons Association president Herbert Yiu, former British Columbia natural resources minister Robert Arthur Williams, and United Steelworkers official Steve Hunt.<ref name="SeekingNom"/> She was nominated on March 22.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Vancouver East had elected an MP from the NDP or its predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, in all but two elections since it was first contested in 1935; it voted for Liberal candidates in 1974 and 1993.

She was elected to the House of Commons in October 2015, defeating candidates Edward Wong (Liberal) and James Low (Conservative) by wide margins.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On November 12, NDP leader Tom Mulcair appointed her to be the party's critic for immigration, refugees and citizenship.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Kwan supported Jagmeet Singh in his successful campaign in the 2017 NDP leadership election.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

She was re-elected in the 2019, 2021 and 2025 federal elections.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On May 12, 2023, it was reported that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service approached Kwan about a meeting concerning Chinese diplomats threatening her.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Electoral record

Federal

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Provincial

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See also

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