49 Facts About Joyce Murray

Joyce Murray was born on July 11,1954 and is a Canadian politician, businesswoman and environmental advocate.

Joyce Murray was re-elected in the 41st, 42nd, 43rd, and 44th federal elections.

Joyce Murray was re-appointed as Minister of Digital Government following the 2019 election.

Joyce Murray previously served as a cabinet minister in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, first as Minister of Water, Land, and Air Protection from 2001 to 2004 and then as Minister of Management Services until 2005.

Joyce Murray was born in Schweizer-Reneke, South Africa, and immigrated to Canada with her parents in 1961.

Joyce Murray's thesis was a policy analysis of one of Canada's options for meeting the challenge of climate change.

Joyce Murray operates in six countries and is developing projects in several others.

Joyce Murray helped in developing management systems, organizational re-engineering, strategic development, restructuring, training and business planning.

From 1996 to 1999, Joyce Murray sat on the BC Forest Resources Advisory Board and the GVRD Waste Management Committee.

When she declared herself a candidate in May 2000, the headline "From the Greens to the Liberals" ran over an article that opens with predictions Joyce Murray had made in 1997 about forest renewal, her background and her wish "to create a sustainable community".

Joyce Murray was named a cabinet minister by Premier Gordon Campbell in June 2001, serving until 2004 as the first-ever minister of Water, Land and Air Protection, and as Minister of Management Services from 2004 until the 2005 election.

In 2002, Joyce Murray hosted a joint meeting of the federal, provincial and territorial energy and environment ministers, to examine policies in the context of ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.

For example, Joyce Murray worked towards developing an agreement with the Heiltsuk First Nation and brought about co-management of the protected Hakai Luxvbalis Conservancy Area.

Joyce Murray presided over budget cuts in the department and rollbacks of environmental regulations.

Joyce Murray introduced the first comprehensive framework strategy for total product stewardship for recycling of all products in British Columbia.

Joyce Murray brought together the province's 13 oil producers to develop a cooperative solution for recycling waste oil, plastic, and steel wool from oil filters.

Joyce Murray then brought the electronics industry under the product stewardship framework to develop solutions for all electronic waste and worked with the pulp and paper industry to help them implement their stewardship strategy.

Joyce Murray's work has since served as the basis for similar legislation in several other provinces.

From 2003 to 2004, Joyce Murray was the president of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment.

Joyce Murray was defeated by Chuck Puchmayr in the 2005 provincial election before moving on to federal politics.

Joyce Murray was the third-party critic for Small Business and Tourism, the Asia Pacific Gateway, and Western Economic Diversification for the Liberal Party's shadow cabinet, having previously served as the Liberal critic for Amateur Sport, leading up to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and as the critic for Democratic Reform in 2008.

Joyce Murray visited Colombia and Panama to review proposed free trade agreements.

Joyce Murray attended the climate negotiations at the Bali Conference in 2007 and the Copenhagen Summit in 2009.

Joyce Murray was an active member of the Canada-China Legislative Association, chaired Parliament's All-Party Conservation Caucus, and was the vice-chair of the Liberal Policy Caucus.

In March 2012, Joyce Murray visited Haiti as a member of a delegation representing the Canadian section of ParlAmericas.

In June 2014, Joyce Murray introduced Bill C-622, the CSEC Accountability and Transparency Act.

In December 2010, Joyce Murray introduced Bill C-606, an act to amend the Canada Shipping Act, which proposed to ban oil tanker traffic on Canada's Pacific North Coast.

Joyce Murray is opposed to all pipelines that would ship Alberta oil and bitumen to the British Columbia coast, calling them a "stone age" approach to energy development.

Joyce Murray has called for more oil to be refined and upgraded in Canada and for an end to "oilsands industry subsidies, and opposition to pipeline proposals to carry bitumen to a BC port".

In June 2012, Joyce Murray hosted Adam Scorgie and Brett Harvey in Ottawa to screen their documentary The Union: The Business Behind Getting High for parliamentarians.

Joyce Murray confirmed in September 2012 that she was exploring the idea of running for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Joyce Murray announced that she supported appointing a minimum of 40 percent of women to the cabinet and government boards, commissions, and agencies.

Joyce Murray supported putting a price on carbon, legalizing marijuana, and wanted Liberals to work cooperatively with the New Democratic Party and the Green Party in the next federal election if this is the desire of riding associations.

Joyce Murray was the only candidate in the leadership race who supported cooperating with other parties before the election.

Joyce Murray was the only Liberal leadership candidate to speak out strongly in favour of electing the House of Commons with a system of proportional representation.

Joyce Murray challenged Trudeau on the issue, especially over his assertion that voters wanted proportional representation because they did not understand the consequences of adopting it.

Joyce Murray was appointed the Liberal critic for both National Defence and Western Diversification and became chair of the Party's Northern and Western Caucus.

Joyce Murray spoke out on matters from defence procurement and safety to electoral reform.

In 2013, Joyce Murray published two articles on national defence, "Canada's Navy is a Sinking Ship" and "My Wish List for National Defence in 2014", published on November 27 and December 20, respectively.

On March 2,2014, Joyce Murray was introduced to Vancouver Quadra supporters as their acclaimed candidate and the first Liberal to be selected in British Columbia to run in the 42nd Canadian federal election scheduled for October 19,2015.

On June 18,2014, Joyce Murray tabled for first reading, Private Member's Bill C-622, "An Act to amend the National Defence Act, to enact the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts".

Joyce Murray noted during the second reading on October 30,2014, that "the prior commissioners of CSEC and prior chiefs of CSEC or CSE have called for this very committee themselves".

On October 19,2015, Joyce Murray was re-elected to represent Vancouver Quadra in the 42nd Canadian federal election.

In celebration of Canada 150, Joyce Murray created an award for Vancouver Quadra's Hidden Heroes, recognizing locals who had contributed to the community and country.

In September 2017, Joyce Murray was awarded the Canada Clean50 Award recognizing her commitment to fighting climate change and protecting the environment.

Joyce Murray received the award in recognition of her work on the Centre for Greening Government, and her record of achievement on environmental issues both federally and provincially.

In February 2018, Joyce Murray travelled to the Digital Nations 2030 conference, held in New Zealand, on behalf of Treasury Board president Scott Brison.

On March 18,2019, Joyce Murray was appointed President of the Treasury Board.

Joyce Murray succeeded Jane Philpott, who had resigned earlier that month in reaction to the SNC-Lavalin affair.