Wayne Cao was born on Nguyen Cao; December 7,1946 and is a Canadian politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, where he represented the district of Calgary-Fort as a Progressive Conservative.
18 Facts About Wayne Cao
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Wayne Cao was first elected in the 1997 provincial election and was re-elected four times.
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Wayne Cao is perhaps best known as the sponsor of the legislation that led to the enshrining of "Alberta".
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Mr Cao served as a member of the Standing Committee on Resource Stewardship.
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Wayne Cao studied engineering, mathematics, and computing science in Saigon and at the University of Auckland and the University of Waterloo.
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Wayne Cao worked for Shell Petroleum for twenty-six years before taking early retirement in 1997 to enter politics.
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Wayne Cao first sought public office in the 1997 provincial election, when he ran in the riding of Calgary-Fort as the Progressive Conservative.
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Wayne Cao was elected handily, and was re-elected in each of the next three elections.
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Wayne Cao would announce he would retire from the legislature in February 2015, prior to the 2015 Alberta general election which saw the Progressive Conservative dynasty end when the New Democratic Party would be elected to a majority government.
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Wayne Cao has moved a large number of private member's bills.
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Wayne Cao followed this bill with efforts to encourage the translation of O Canada into all languages spoken by Canadians; he composed a Vietnamese version and sang it on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Wayne Cao sponsored the Employment Standards Amendment Act, which would have combined the provisions for adoptive leave and maternity leave and extended them to 27 weeks.
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Wayne Cao first introduced the bill in 1999, but the legislature adjourned before it reached second reading.
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Wayne Cao re-introduced it in 2000, when several MLAs, including Liberals Don Massey, Laurie Blakeman, Linda Sloan, and Percy Wickman and Progressive Conservatives Moe Amery, Karen Kryczka, and Mary Anne Jablonski, spoke in support of the bill on second reading.
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In 2008, Wayne Cao sponsored the Alberta Volunteer Service Medal Act, which would have established a medal for exceptional volunteers.
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Wayne Cao sponsored a successful private bill in 1998, the Tanya Marie Bryant Adoption Termination Act.
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Wayne Cao is married to Kim Hoang, an engineer and banker.
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Wayne Cao identifies Confucius and Winston Churchill as his political heroes.