17 Facts About Mable Elmore

Mable Elmore is a Canadian politician that represents the Vancouver-Kensington electoral district in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

Mable Elmore was active within Vancouver's Filipino Canadian community and within her union.

Mable Elmore's mother immigrated to Canada from the Philippines in 1965 and met her father, an Irish Canadian manager at a pulp and paper mill, while in Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

The family moved to Nova Scotia and they lived in Turkey for a brief time, but they spent most of Mable Elmore's youth living in Manitoba.

Several years later, Mable Elmore started working as a bus driver for the Coast Mountain Bus Company.

Mable Elmore was a vocal advocate for social justice issues and worker rights.

Mable Elmore was active with the Vancouver and District Labour Council, the BC Federation of Labour, and in her union, the CAW Local 111.

Mable Elmore had the support of many in the Filipino Canadian community who helped campaign for her.

Mable Elmore was the first Filipino Canadian to be elected as a Member of the BC Legislative Assembly, and only the second openly lesbian member, after Jenn McGinn.

Mable Elmore was appointed to the Select Standing Committee on Children and Youth in all four sessions of the Parliament.

Mable Elmore serves as the vice-chair of the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services in the third and fourth session.

Mable Elmore was part of an effort to defend party leader Carole James in 2010 when MLAs began to criticize the party leadership.

Mable Elmore was a vocal critic of the abuse of the temporary foreign worker program.

Mable Elmore was challenged by her BC NDP colleague Jenny Kwan, the MLA for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant at the time, and in the nomination contest on March 22,2015, Kwan was selected.

Mable Elmore sought re-election in Vancouver-Kensington during the 2017 provincial election, in which she faced former senior advisor for the BC Ministry of Health Kim Chan Logan for the BC Liberals and Simon Rear for the BC Greens.

Mable Elmore co-chaired an advisory committee on poverty reduction tasked with offering expertise and advice on how best to implement a Poverty Reduction Strategy and recommending priority actions and principles for that strategy.

Mable Elmore remained in that post until December 7,2022, when new Premier David Eby named her Parliamentary Secretary for Anti-Racism Initiatives.