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<h1 style="text-align: center;">John Horgan</h1>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">BC NDP Leader, MLA BC Juan De Fuca</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">2014 - current, 2005 - current</h2>
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<li><strong>[2014]</strong></li>
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<li>] elected by acclamation as the leader of the BC NDP party succeeding Adrian Dix</li>
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<li><strong>[2013]</strong></li>
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<li>x] Re-Elected &nbsp;MLA Juan De Fuca riding for the BC NDP with 49% vote, defeating Lib o</li>
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<li><strong>[2009] politics -&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>x] Re-Elected &nbsp;MLA Juan De Fuca riding for the BC NDP with 57% vote, defeating Liberal Jody Twa</li>
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<li><strong>[2005] politics -&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>x] Elected &nbsp;MLA for BC NDP with 46% vote, defeating Liberal Cathy Basskin with 39%</li>
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<li><strong>[2001] business -&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>x] opened a managment and research consulting business</li>
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<li><strong>[????] married&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] MARRIED ellie, 2 kids</li>
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<li><strong>[1984] university -&nbsp;</strong>masters degree&nbsp;</li>
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<li>x] Sidney University, Sidney, AUS, Masters&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[1979] university&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>x] Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Bachelors&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[] grade 9 - high school - from off the rails to student council president</strong></li>
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<li>] attended Reynolds Secondary School in Saanich. ]&nbsp;went "off the rails" in Grade 9, with help found focus through sports, became student council president in his last year of high school.&nbsp;</li>
<li>] He said he failed science, math, typing and French in Grade 9.&nbsp;</li>
<li>] "I didn't show up," he said. "I was 14-years-old and smoking cigarettes and not watching Captain Kangaroo, as the old song goes. I was running with the wrong crowd, and the coach of the basketball team kind of grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and said, 'You can probably do better if you put your mind to it.'"</li>
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<li><strong>[1959]</strong></li>
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<li>x] Born in Saanich(Victoria), BC,&nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[articles]</h2>
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<li><strong>[2016-04-27]</strong><strong>&nbsp;NEW article IN nations/canada/provincial-government</strong></li>
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<li>] # # - cancer survivor</li>
<li>] # # -&nbsp;is a passionate advocate for health care, public schools and community services for families.</li>
<li>]&nbsp;worked in a BC mill and in a joinery. &nbsp;</li>
<li>] father passed away in his youth , natural leader basketball and lacross,&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;FUN FACTS he's a Star Trek fan, was the King of Hearts on Valentine's Day in Grade 1, and met his wife Ellie on their first day at university. SRC=4</li>
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<li>]&nbsp;I do come from very modest means and difficult times, and I had a couple of off-the-rails experiences as a teenager that I was able to recover from. Not everybody gets that chance.", SRC=3</li>
<li>] "I always, always think about families, and when I hear 'the family unit' being used as a political tool in rhetoric, but not in substance, then I respond to that," he continued.
<div>"There was no insurance of any consequence when my father died, so my mom was left to her own devices -- no job, no driver's licence -- and we all got through that, and it was because our neighbours helped us." SRC=3</div>
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<h2>[reference]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bcndp.ca/johnhorgan" target="_blank">https://www.bcndp.ca/johnhorgan</a></li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horgan_(Canadian_politician)" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horgan_(Canadian_politician)</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://thetyee.ca/News/2014/05/15/Who-is-John-Horgan" target="_blank">http://thetyee.ca/News/2014/05/15/Who-is-John-Horgan</a>/&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/05/01/john-horgan-bc-ndp-leader_n_5244723.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/05/01/john-horgan-bc-ndp-leader_n_5244723.html</a></li>
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