Jenny Kwan to run for federal NDP seat in Vancouver East
Posted January 25, 2015 4:40 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – A veteran NDP MLA is hoping to make the jump to federal politics.
Jenny Kwan is seeking the party’s nomination for MP Vancouver East.
Kwan is hoping to replace outgoing MP Libby Davies. She will be up against fellow caucus mate Mabel Elmore.
“Libby has said on the outset that she was going to remain neutral with nomination battles. She has always done that in her many years in office and I’m going to respect that process.”
Kwan is no stranger to scandal, and says she expects the Portland Hotel Society issue to come up. “I was shocked by it, I took immediate action to correct it. I went to financial institutions and borrowed money to repay the amounts that I thought had been paid for by my former spouse.”
Last March, Kwan announced she had paid back $35,000 to the society after a government audit found taxpayers paid for her family’s trips to places like Disneyland and Europe.
Kwan has been the NDP MLA for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant since 1996.
