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The Honourable
Rob Fleming
MLA
Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure ofBritish Columbia
Incumbent
Assumed office
November 26, 2020
PremierJohn Horgan
David Eby
Preceded byClaire Trevena
Minister of Education ofBritish Columbia
In office
July 18, 2017 – November 26, 2020
PremierJohn Horgan
Preceded byMike Bernier
Succeeded byJennifer Whiteside
Member of theBritish Columbia Legislative Assembly
forVictoria-Swan Lake
Victoria-Hillside(2005-2009)
Incumbent
Assumed office
May 17, 2005
Preceded bySheila Orr
VictoriaCity Councillor
In office
1999–2005
Personal details
Born(1971-11-11)November 11, 1971(age 52)
Windsor, Ontario
Political partyNew Democrat
SpouseMaura Parte
Children2
ResidenceVictoria, British Columbia
Alma materUniversity of Victoria
ProfessionCommunications consulting

Rob Fleming(born November 11, 1971) is a Canadianpoliticianwho was elected to theLegislative Assembly of British Columbiain the2005 provincial election,defeating the one-term Liberal Party incumbent, Sheila Orr. Initially representingVictoria-Hillside,he was re-elected in subsequent elections in the renamed constituency ofVictoria-Swan Lake.A member of theBritish Columbia New Democratic Party(BC NDP), he was named to the cabinet ofBritish Columbiain July 2017 as Minister of Education, before assuming his current post as Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure in November 2020. Prior to entering provincial politics, he was acity councillorinVictoria, British Columbiafrom 1999 to 2005.

In the38th ParliamentFleming was the New Democrat critic for Advanced Education, sat on the Select Standing Committee on Education, and introduced two education-related private member bills: thePrivate Post-Secondary Accountability and Student Protection Act, 2007and theRestoring Credibility to Universities Act, 2008.He was also assigned to the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts and introduced thePayday Lending Act, 2006which sought to regulate the conditions ofpayday loansand led to the government adopting theBusiness Practices and Consumer Protection (Payday Loans) Amendment Acta year later.

In the39th ParliamentFleming became the NDP's environment critic. He introduced theCosmetic Pesticide and Carcinogen Control Actand sat on the subsequent Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides which investigated potential bans or regulations on pesticides used for cosmetic purposes. Fleming also introduced theSpecies at Risk Protection Act,after the government delayed a promise to review its species-at-risk legislation, and theSustainable Development Indicators and Reporting Act, 2011which sought to create a Sustainable Development Board to report on provincial sustainability-related indicators. Fleming sat on the Select Standing Committee on Legislative Initiatives which considered the petition seeking the repeal of theHarmonized Sales Tax.

In the40th ParliamentFleming was appointed to be the NDP's education critic. He introduced the private member billYouth Voter Registration Actthat would have allowed provisional voter registration of people between the ages of 16 and 18, a measure that was later adopted in 2019.

Background

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Born inWindsor, Ontario,Fleming and his family moved to BC when he was three years old, settling onGreater Vancouver'sNorth Shore.[1][2]In the1988 federal election,he assisted in theNew Democratic Party's campaign in the riding ofCapilano—Howe Sound.[1]From 1993 to 1995 he attended the university transfer program atCamosun CollegeinSaanich,which later awarded him the 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award.[3]While at Camosun, Fleming served as communications coordinator for the student society.[4]

He then enrolled in theUniversity of Victoria(UVic), where he majored in history.[2]As president of theUVic Students' Society,he was active in acquiring universal access toBC Transitfor students through aU-Passsystem.[5]After graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in 2002, he started work with a communication consulting business.[2]

He met his wife Maura Parte while attending UVic; they have two children together.[2][6]

Municipal politics

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While still at university, he stood as a candidate forVictoria City Councilin the 1999 municipal elections as a member of the Victoria Civic Electors,[2]which ran a joint slate of seven candidates with the Green Party. Fleming finished third in voting, securing him a seat on the eight-member council.[1][7]He was re-elected councillor in 2002, this time receiving the second highest vote count.[8]He traveled toEl Salvadorin 2004, as part of a 13-member delegation of election observers to monitor thepresidential election.[9]

While on Victoria City Council, Fleming gained a reputation for being a "fiscally prudent democratic socialist".[10]He supported the legalization ofsecondary suites,[11]the construction of theSave-On-Foods Memorial Centre(but voted against the option to have it privately operated),[12]and amendments to bylaws to target aggressive panhandling.[13]As a director on the board of theCapital Regional District(CRD), Fleming was vice-chair of the CRD Housing Corporation where he advocated for an Affordable Housing Trust Fund.[14]He sat on theVictoria Regional Transit Commissionand has advocated for transit service expansion andlight railinGreater Victoria.He was a member of theProvincial Capital Commissionand was the only member to vote against, due to concerns with the long-term lease agreement and risks involved, replacing the plant and animal conservatory Crystal Gardens with the multi-media tourist attraction, The B.C. Experience, which filed for bankruptcy protection three months after opening.[15]

Provincial politics

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With the2005 BC general electionstill a year away, Fleming declared his interest in seeking theNDPnomination in theVictoria-Hillsideriding.[16]Within a few months, formerMember of the Legislative Assembly(MLA)Steve Orcherton,who had won the riding in1996but lost in2001,declared his candidacy for the NDP nomination. The primary was billed as a contest between the hard line "old-school union man" Orcherton versus the "new wave" moderate Fleming which was seen as the symbolic struggle that was occurring throughout the party.[17]Fleming won the NDP nomination in January and began campaigning in April for the general election. Fleming was one of five candidates across the province who were endorsed by the Conservation Voters of British Columbia.[18]In the May general election Fleming defeated the incumbentBC LiberalSheila OrrandGreen Partycandidate and small business owner Steve Filipovic. Fleming resigned from his position as Victoria city councillor to become a New Democratic MLA, as part of the Official Opposition.

38th Parliament

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In the38th Parliament,Fleming and chaired the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts and part way through the 2nd session he was assigned to the Select Standing Committee on Education which focused on adult literacy. He introduced several pieces of legislation, including thePayday Lending Act, 2006,which sought to license payday lenders and regulate the conditions ofpayday loans,includingplain languagerules, rights to cancellation, signage requirements.[19][20][21]While Solicitor GeneralJohn Lesstated he was in favour of many of the regulations, he felt the bill was premature and that changes to the federalCriminal Codewere required before proceeding with such regulations, despite other provinces already having passed similar legislation.[22]The bill was granted first reading on May 8, 2006, but without the government support the bill was not adopted. However, a year later, a similar bill, introduced by Les, theBusiness Practices and Consumer Protection (Payday Loans) Amendment Act, 2007was introduced and adopted concurrent with federal amendments to the Criminal Code.[23]

Fleming was assigned the role of critic for advanced education. He introduced thePrivate Post-Secondary Accountability and Student Protection Act, 2007which was intended to increase the accountability of private career training institutions and increasing the enforcement abilities of the Degree Quality Assessment Board.[24]He spoke out against deregulation that alloweddiploma millslikeRutherford UniversityandKingston Collegewhich advertised to foreign students.[25][26][27]He introduced theRestoring Credibility to Universities Act, 2008which sought to repeal theWorld Trade University Canada Establishment Actand portions of the 2007Education Statutes Amendment Actconcerning private post-secondary institutions.[28]Fleming also took on the role as the NDP tourism critic and objected to Tourism MinisterBill Bennett's decision not to participate in the National Vigil Project (a light display honouring Canadians killed World War One) due to costs[29]and, in response to funding cuts toTourism BC,he criticized government self-promotional advertising.[30]

39th Parliament

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While his riding was re-aligned to createVictoria-Swan Lake,Fleming easily won re-election facing no opposition for the NDP nomination[31]and receiving 61% of the votes in theMay 2009 general election.In the39th Parliament,his party once again formed the Official Opposition to a BC Liberal majority government. Party leaderCarole Jamesassigned him the role of environment critic with the intent of re-casting the party's image on environmental issues following the party's negatively received campaign plank of repealing thecarbon tax.[32]Fleming, and the party, stopped calling for a repeal of the carbon tax and instead emphasized a more nuanced position in providing alternatives which would improve the tax.[33]He linked planned increases in transit fares to global warming and spoke out against fee increases at provincial park campsites.[34][35]

In November 2009, and again in April 2010, he introduced theCosmetic Pesticide and Carcinogen Control Act(Bill M-203)which would have prohibited the sale or use of cosmeticpesticides,other than those deemed low-risk.[36][37]The Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides was struck, with Fleming as deputy chair, to investigate the potential for regulating or banning the use or sale of pesticides used for cosmetic purposes. They first convened in July 2011 and reported in 2012.

In the August 2009Throne Speechthe BC government committed to striking a task force on the topic ofspecies-at-risk,but with no action since then, Fleming introduced his ownSpecies at Risk Protection Act(Bill M-207)in May 2010, based on similar legislation inOntario.[38][39]The Minister of EnvironmentBarry Pennerresponded in June by striking a ten member species-at-risk task force consisting of academics and representatives of industry and non-profit organizations, who were told to make recommendations to directlycabinet.[40]The task force report was submitted in January 2011 but, with the government not making the report public, Fleming re-introduced his legislation(Bill M-211)in June 2011 (the reportwas made public less than a month later).

In addition, Fleming participated in two committees. In the first two sessions he was deputy chair of the Select Standing Committee on Parliamentary Reform, Ethical Conduct, Standing Orders and Private Bills, which met once in each session to reviewprivate bills.He was member of the Select Standing Committee on Legislative Initiatives, the committee that only met twice, both times in September 2010, to deal with a petition seeking the repeal of theHarmonized Sales Tax;Fleming and the three other New Democratic Party members voted to recommend introducing the draftHST Extinguishment Actinto the Legislative Assembly, while the five BC Liberal members voted to initiate the2011 British Columbia sales tax referendum.

During theBC NDP leadership electionto replace Carole James, Fleming supportedMike Farnworth,[41]thoughAdrian Dixeventually won. Dix kept Fleming as the critic for Environment. When Parliament re-convened for a fourth session Fleming introduced another private member bill, theSustainable Development Indicators and Reporting Act, 2011(Bill M-207)which sought to create a Sustainable Development Board to measure and report on indicators of BC's economic, environmental and social sustainability.

40th Parliament

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With theMay 2013 electionapproaching, the 41-year-old Fleming sought re-election in theVictoria-Swan Lakeriding. He defeated the BC Liberal candidate, small-business owner Christina Bates, and the BC Green candidate Spencer Malthouse.[42]Despite his win and favourable polling, Fleming's party lost the general election and again formed the official opposition. Fleming was critical of party leader Adrian Dix's positive-only campaigning during the election, partly blamed for the upset loss, saying that it allowed their opponents to define who they were and then attack that without response.[43]Dix appointed Fleming to the role of education critic, moving his previous role of environment critic toSpencer Chandra Herbert.[44]

Upon Dix's resignation as leader of the BC NDP, Fleming was considered as a potential candidate[45][46]and actively considered seeking the role.[47]However, after bothJohn HorganandMike Farnworthannounced their intention to run, Fleming decided he would not;[48][49]he later endorsed Horgan's candidacy.[50]Horgan went on to become the leader and kept Fleming in his education critic role.[51]

In December 2015, Fleming fired his constituency assistant who was subsequently arrested, in July 2016, for defrauding the Victoria-Swan Lake constituency office of $120,420 since March 2009.[52]Fleming sponsored the private member billYouth Voter Registration Act, 2015(Bill M-205)which sought allow provisional voter registration of people between the ages or 16 and 18, one of the recommendations of a 2011 report by the Chief Electoral Officer.[53]The bill was not advanced and he re-introduced it in February 2017 as theElection (Increasing Youth Participation) Amendment Act, 2017(Bill M-218).The measure was eventually adopted during the 41st Parliament as part of theElection Amendment Act, 2019.

41st Parliament

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For the2017 general electionFleming was challenged by digital media management consultant Stacey Piercey for the BC Liberal Party, Vancouver medical researcher Chris Maxwell for the Green Party, and David Costigane for theVancouver Island Party.[54]Fleming was again re-elected with his party forming the Official Opposition, but this time in a BC Liberal minority government. However, in the first session of the41st Parliamentthe BC Liberal government lost a confidence vote and the second session began with the BC NDP forming a minority government. In July 2017, PremierJohn Horganappointed Fleming Minister of Education in theExecutive Council of British Columbia.[55]In that role he oversaw the suspension of in-class learning in the province's schools during the initial months of theCOVID-19 pandemicin 2020;[56]that August he announced the re-opening of schools on September 10, 2020 for the new school year.[57]

42nd Parliament

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In theOctober 2020 snap electioncalled by Premier John Horgan, Fleming handily won re-election with more than 59% of the vote.[58]Following acabinet shuffleon November 26, 2020, he was reassigned to the position of the Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, replacingClaire Trevena,the incumbent minister who declined to seek re-election.[59]He was in turn replaced byJennifer Whitesideas Minister of Education.[60]

In the new cabinet announced by PremierDavid Ebyon December 7, 2022, Fleming retained the post of Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure.[61]

Electoral history

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2020 British Columbia general election:Victoria-Swan Lake
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
New Democratic Rob Fleming 14,186 59.35 +5.74 $29,468.05
Green Annemieke Holthuis 6,638 27.77 −1.94 $11,832.34
Liberal David Somerville 2,729 11.42 −4.45 $2,429.03
Independent Jenn Smith 241 1.01 – $8,085.95
Communist Walt Parsons 107 0.45 – $123.40
Total valid votes 23,901 100.00 –
Total rejected ballots 175 0.71 +0.04
Turnout 24,076 59.02 –5.31
Registered voters 40,790
New Democratichold Swing +3.84
Source:Elections BC[62][63]
2017 British Columbia general election:Victoria-Swan Lake
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
New Democratic Rob Fleming 13,374 53.61 −0.88 $46,600
Green Christopher Alan Maxwell 7,413 29.71 +6.50 $6,955
Liberal Stacey Piercey 3,960 15.87 −6.43 $27,194
Vancouver Island Party David Costigane 203 0.81 – $0
Total valid votes 24,950 100.00 –
Total rejected ballots 169 0.67 +0.04
Turnout 25,119 64.33 +6.26
Registered voters 39,046
New Democratichold Swing −2.81
Source:Elections BC[64][65]
2013 British Columbia general election:Victoria-Swan Lake
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
New Democratic Rob Fleming 12,350 54.49 −6.04 $82,519
Green Spencer Alexander Malthouse 5,260 23.21 +11.09 $5,028
Liberal Christina Bates 5,055 22.30 −4.24 $36,719
Total valid votes 22,665 100.00 –
Total rejected ballots 143 0.63 −0.07
Turnout 22,808 58.07 +1.17
Registered voters 39,275
Source:Elections BC[66]
2009 British Columbia general election:Victoria-Swan Lake
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
New Democratic Rob Fleming 13,119 60.53 +4.53 $75,655
Liberal Jesse McClinton 5,754 26.54 −2.54 $36,875
Green David Wright 2,628 12.12 +0.12 $760
Refederation Bob Savage 174 0.81 – $750
Total valid votes 21,675 100.00 –
Total rejected ballots 153 0.70 −0.20
Turnout 21,828 56.90 −6.10
Registered voters 38,359
Net change is calculated based on the 2005 results fromVictoria-Hillside.
Source:Elections BC[67]
2005 British Columbia general election:Victoria-Hillside
Party Candidate Votes % Expenditures
New Democratic Rob Fleming 13,926 57 $72,755
Liberal Sheila Orr 7,042 29 $117,576
Green Steve Filipovic 2,934 12 $4,899
Democratic Reform Jim McDermott 363 1.5 $5,652
Work Less Katrina Jean Herriot 167 0.7 $100
Total valid votes 24,432 100
Total rejected ballots 216 0.9
Turnout 24,648 63

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