1. Wai Young is a Canadian politician from Vancouver, British Columbia.
18 Facts About Wai Young
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Wai Young represented the electoral district of Vancouver South for the Conservative Party of Canada from 2011 to 2015.
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Wai Young was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 election, but was defeated by the Liberal Party candidate Harjit Sajjan in the 2015 election.
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Wai Young started her own municipal party, Coalition Vancouver, on June 21,2018.
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Wai Young is leader of the party and ran as its mayoral candidate for the 2018 municipal election.
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Wai Young attended Killarney Secondary School and graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in sociology.
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Wai Young has taken post-graduate coursework in Mass Communications and Urban Planning and Design at Simon Fraser University and the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
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Wai Young is a mother of twins and has been the foster parent of seven children.
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Wai Young founded and chaired Canada's first Youth-At-Risk Task Force, which became the National Crime Prevention Program Wai Young established Canada's longest-running breakfast program for underprivileged children.
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Finally, Wai Young worked for the provincial Ministry of Children and Family Development and the federal ministry of Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
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Wai Young has spent over thirty years working and volunteering in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, at a number of community agencies including the Social Planning and Research Council of BC, Association of Neighbourhood Houses, the Strathcona Community Centre and YWCA Vancouver.
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On October 26,2011, Wai Young was elected Vice-Chair of the Canada-China Legislative Association.
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On March 5,2013, Wai Young was elected Chair of the CCLA.
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On January 7,2014, Wai Young announced $2.5 million of federal funding towards the Killarney Seniors Centre.
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Wai Young was defeated by the Liberal Party candidate Harjit Sajjan in the 2015 election.
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Wai Young started her own municipal party, Coalition Vancouver, on June 21,2018.
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Wai Young is leader of the party and ran as its mayoral candidate for the 2018 municipal election.
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In July 2019, Wai Young was announced as the Conservative candidate in Vancouver South for the 2019 election.