1. Nathan Paul Cullen was born on July 13,1972 and is a Canadian politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia representing the riding of Stikine from 2020 to 2024 as a member of the New Democratic Party and served in the Executive Council of British Columbia from 2020 to 2024.
Nathan Cullen stood in the 2012 New Democratic Party leadership election, where he came in third.
Nathan Cullen has described himself as a descendant of Jewish people.
Nathan Cullen moved to Smithers, British Columbia in 1998 and started a private consulting business focussed on strategic planning and conflict resolution.
Nathan Cullen completed high school at Martingrove Collegiate Institute in Toronto, and graduated from Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario in 1994, with a bachelor of arts in international development studies and environmental studies.
At the age of 31, in the June 2004 federal election, Nathan Cullen was elected to his first term as a Member of Parliament.
Nathan Cullen made support of the federal moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling part of his campaign and a magnitude 6.7 earthquake off Haida Gwaii during the campaign helped highlight Nathan Cullen's arguments.
Nathan Cullen went on to defeat the Conservative incumbent Burton by a margin of 1,272 votes.
Nathan Cullen was the youngest of 19 New Democratic Party candidates elected to the 38th Parliament.
Nathan Cullen became the party's national critic for youth issues, the environment and national parks.
Nathan Cullen continued to support the moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling despite Prime-Minister Paul Martin opening a cabinet level review of the moratorium; the review ended with the conclusion that lifting the moratorium was too politically divisive.
Nathan Cullen was awarded the US Ambassador's Award as one of only two Canadian recipients.
Nathan Cullen spent time lobbying the Liberal government to publicly disclose the bids for Ridley Terminal; the proposed sale of the Prince Rupert Port Authority coal loading terminals by the federal government to a private firm was criticized by opposition parties as undervaluing the facility and likely to restrict fair access by competing coal companies.
Nathan Cullen was effective at forcing Scott to defend issues from his time in office during the 1990s while Scott made Nathan Cullen defend his vote to support the Canadian Firearms Registry despite promising to vote against it.
In 2009 Nathan Cullen created a contest in his constituency called Create Your Canada which challenges students between grades 5 and 12 to submit proposals for federal legislation.
Nathan Cullen was the Associate Critic for Natural Resources, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, and Environment and Sustainable Development before resigning from his roles to participate in the NDP leadership race.
Nathan Cullen proposed that joint primary nominations should take place in Conservative-held ridings to determine the best possible local candidate to avoid vote splitting among 'progressives'.
Nathan Cullen is suggesting that each constituency association would have the choice of whether or not to run their respective campaign in this way, and that there would be no "top-down" directive to do so.
Whereas at the beginning of the race Nathan Cullen was considered one of the " -rans", he eventually was given considerably more attention, with the CBC, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and National Post all running articles on his candidacy.
Nathan Cullen replaced long time Ontario MP Joe Comartin as House Leader, with Comartin being named Critic for Democratic Reform.
On March 20,2014, Nathan Cullen replaced Peggy Nash as Finance Critic for the Official Opposition just days after former Natural Resources minister Joe Oliver was named Minister of Finance.
In March 2015, Nathan Cullen attacked Joe Oliver over his avoidance of Question Period after repeated delays in introducing the budget after the drop in oil prices.
On November 22,2014, Nathan Cullen was named Most Knowledgeable Parliamentarian at the Maclean's Magazine Parliamentarian of the Year Awards in Ottawa, edging out Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who placed second in votes.
Nathan Cullen was named to the committee, and serves as vice-chair.
Nathan Cullen announced on March 1,2019, that he would not run for re-election in that year's federal election.
Nathan Cullen's appointment came in the midst of the 2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests, after the hereditary chiefs refused to meet with BC Minister of Indigenous Relations Scott Fraser.
Nathan Cullen's candidacy became the subject of controversy when he was acclaimed by the party one week after Annita McPhee, a former elected president of the Tahltan Nation, announced she was seeking the nomination for the riding.
On November 26,2020, Nathan Cullen was sworn in to the Executive Council of British Columbia as Minister of State for Lands and Resource Operations.
Nathan Cullen was named Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship and Minister Responsible for Fisheries in the Eby ministry on December 7,2022.