Fin Donnelly

Quick Facts

Full Name	Fin Donnelly
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	May 27, 1966(1966-05-27)
Age	58
Birthplace	New Westminster
Country	Canada
Birth City	British Columbia
Horoscope	Taurus

Fin Donnelly Biography

Fin Donnelly is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on May 27, 1966 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. Fin Donnelly (born May 27 in 1996) was a Canadian politician that was elected into the House of Commons of Canada to represent the district of Port Moody- Coquitlam. He is an official of the New Democratic Party. Donnelly was first elected as a member of parliament in a by-election on November 9, 2009, in the New Westminster–Coquitlam electoral district. In the year that he was in the 39th Canadian parliament, he served in the role of the fisheries critic for his party, and introduced six bills for private members. He was elected again in 2011, and in the 41st Congress that followed, in the 41st Parliament, he introduced those same bills. two of which, relating to the offense of luring a child to commit a crime, were approved as part of the Safe Streets and Communities Act. He also introduced a legislation known as the Ban on Shark Fin Importation Act that was approved but was defeated through members of the Conservative Party majority. He as the official opposition’s critic of Fisheries and Oceans until the 2012 leadership election , following which Tom Mulcair elevated him to the position of critic for Western Economic Diversification and then was demoted to the position of the deputy critic. Donnelly also won re-election at the federal election of 2015 and was elevated to the position of fisheries critic. In the 42nd Parliament , he brought back his earlier bill to require closed containment facilities to commercially aquaculture finfish. However, the bill was rejected.

The 43-year-old Donnelly joined the federal political scene following the departure of his local parliamentarian Dawn Black vacated her seat in April 2009. In the June NDP constituency meeting, Donnelly took the NDP nomination in the first round, beating his fellow Coquitlam City Councillor Barrie Lynch, and New Westminster councillor Lorrie Williams. Port Moody councillor Diana Dilworth was awarded her Conservative Party nomination, civil and environmental engineer Ken Beck Lee won the Liberal Party nomination, and Rebecca Helps was acclaimed as the Green Party nominee. The by-election took place on the 9th of November. Donnelly was backed with campaign visits from the party’s chief Jack Layton, and Dilworth were thought to be as the most likely candidates. With only a 30percent turnout of voters, Donnelly won the by-election with 50 percent of the votes. Since his election as a candidate in the year 2009 Donnelly was active in a variety of concerns for British Columbians, with a particular focus that concern environmental issues, society as well as the economy.

For the 2011 election, Donnelly was acclaimed as the NDP candidate and again challenged by Dilworth, Lee, and Helps, as well as Roland Verrier for the Marxist–Leninist Party. This time with 60% voter turnout, Donnelly won the riding with 46% of the vote and his party formed the official opposition to a Conservative Party majority government. In the ensuing 41st Canadian Parliament, Donnelly re-introduced, all in 2011, the six of the private member bills he introduced in the previous parliament. While, again, none of the bills advanced far enough to be voted upon, the two proposed amendments to the Criminal Code regarding luring a child were adopted in the Safe Streets and Communities Act. In December 2011, Donnelly sponsored a new private member bill, the Ban on Shark Fin Importation Act (Bill C-380), but it was defeated at second reading in March 2013 with the Conservative Party majority voting against it. In the NDP shadow cabinet Jack Layton re-appointed him as critic on Fisheries and Oceans. In the 2012 leadership election, following Layton’s death, Donnelly endorsed Nathan Cullen. Tom Mulcair won the election to become leader of the party and he moved Donnelly to critic of Western Economic Diversification. A year and a half later, Mulcair re-assigned Donnelly to be the deputy critic to both Fisheries and Oceans and Infrastructure and Communities for the remainder of the parliament.

New electoral districts in the Greater Vancouver area, added for the 2015 election, resulted in Donnelly moving to the re-created Port Moody—Coquitlam riding, which effectively would shift his representative area northwards by removing New Westminster and adding the entirety of Port Moody. In the election, Donnelly was challenged by City of Vancouver’s chief digital officer Jessie Adcock for the Liberal Party, Canadian Forces veteran Tim Laidler for the Conservative Party, and Green Party member Marcus Madsen, as well as Roland Verrier of the Marxist–Leninist again. Though Donnelly won his riding with 36% of the vote, the Liberal Party won the general election and formed a majority government with the Conservative Party taking over the official opposition status and the NDP as the third party. With a reduced number of MPs, party leader Tom Mulcair appointed Donnelly to be the NDP critic for Fisheries, Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard, again, a post he previously held in 2009-2012 and since acted as deputy to. In the 42nd Canadian Parliament he, again, sponsored the private member bill C-228 which proposed to amend the Fisheries Act to require commercial finfish aquaculture only take place in closed containment facilities and this time it was voted on, in December 2016, but defeated with a majority of the Liberal Party MPs (who were granted a free vote) and the Conservative Party voting against the bill, though all NDP, Bloc Quebecois and Green Party MPs voted in favour. In March 2016 Donnelly re-introduced the Ban on Shark Fin Importation Act (Bill C-251). It only received a first reading but was introduced into the senate by Conservative senator Michael L. MacDonald in April 2017. Donnelly did not re- introduce his previous bill to prohibit oil tankers off B.C.’s north coast, though the government house bill Oil Tanker Moratorium Act (Bill C-48) was introduced that would accomplish much the same except it would still allow small general purpose tankers.

In the years prior to being elected a federal legislator in 2002, he was a member for 7 years from 2002 until 2009, on the city council in his home town of Coquitlam. Before this, Donnelly was a marathon swimmer from 1990 to 2002, during which time was able to swim through the entire length of the Fraser River twice, as in swimming across the Strait of Georgia, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and also over Pitt Lake, Okanagan Lake and Quesnel Lake.

Fin Donnelly Net Worth

Fin Donnelly is one of the richest Politician from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Fin Donnelly 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His graduation from University of Victoria in 1989 with an bachelor of arts degree in philosophy as well as minoring in environmental studies. He competed in swimming during his 16 years at college , and completed 14 marathons of swimming between 1990 and 2000. They included crossing Pitt Lake, Okanagan Lake, Williams Lake, Quesnel Lake and across the Raush River. He crossed the Strait of Georgia four times including in 1991 when he raced between Sechelt to Nanaimo as part of a charity swimming event for the Georgia Strait Alliance. In 1994, he crossed across the Strait of Juan de Fuca starting from Port Angeles to Victoria. In 1995, and then again during 2000 Donnelly took on the 1,325-km Fraser River, from Mount Robson Provincial Park up to Vancouver and ending in False Creek. Many of his marathon swimming events were used to create consciousness of the local challenges that affect the lakes and rivers as well as their watersheds, and to raise funds for non-profit organizations concerned with the conservation or rehabilitation of the watersheds and rivers. Donnelly established the non-profit group Rivershed Society of British Columbia in 1996, and served as the executive director.

In 2002 at the age of 35, Donnelly decided to seek an election to his position on the Coquitlam City Council. His well-known swimming events and campaign focusing upon sustainable growth made him a probable candidate to upset one the incumbents. Donnelly as well as Barrie Lynch both had success in winning seats on the council, and slaying two incumbents but Donnelly’s campaign manager, who was a surprise to him, passed away Cameron Lipp two weeks before the election. When he was first elected as a councillor, Donnelly put forth a successful motion to have the city send an email to its neighbor city, Laizhou in China, warning of the oppression by Falun Gong. At the 2005 council elections the four councillors who had contested for re-election the election, including Donnelly who was the one who got the most votes over other candidates. In the 2008 election for the council, Donnelly again obtained the largest number of votes during the election for council.

Donnelly entered the 40th Canadian Parliament during its third session, which lasted one year, during which time he served as the party’s national fisheries critic. During that year he sponsored six private member bills, none of which advanced far enough to be voted upon. He sponsored two amendments to the Criminal Code, both of which Dawn Black had previously introduced in the previous parliament: Bill C-520 would have added the offence of luring a child to those offenses prosecutable in Canada even if committed outside Canada and Bill C-521 would have expanded the offence of luring a child to include all means of communication rather than solely through a computer. In March 2010, he introduced Bill C-502 that would prohibit oil tankers in the Dixon Entrance, Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound. In May 2010, he introduced Bill C-518 which proposed to amend the Fisheries Act to require commercial finfish aquaculture only take place in closed containment facilities. He also proposed Bill C-526 that would have expanded Employment Insurance coverage received as a result of illness, injury or quarantine from 15 to 52 weeks.

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