honourable the Gordon Muir Campbell (born the January 12th 1948) is a Canadian Politician . He is current the Prime Minister for the Colombia-British. He was recently elected for a second mandate. He is the chief of the Liberal party of the Colombia-British, who holds a majority with the legislative Assemblée of the Colombia-British.

Biography

Though born in an easy family of Vancouver, Gordon Campbell is plunged in situations extremely different by the Suicide from his/her father whereas it was only 13 years old. His/her mother is from now on alone with an income reduced to raise her daughter and three wire in a small apartment.

He attends the public school (University Hill Secondary School) has Vancouver. Campbell goes then to the Dartmouth College to the New Hampshire, studying in urban management and taking down a baccalaureat in English. It takes down later a control in administration of businesses in 1978 while studying of night to the Université Simon Fraser.

Campbell spends two years to Yola, with the Nigeria, where he teaches at the secondary school on a voluntary basis for Canadian University Service Overseas. On its return to Canada he is executive assistant for Art Philips, then mayor of Vancouver, 1973 with 1976. Campbell then leaves temporarily the policy in order to work under development real, possibly building two hotels with Vancouver.

He is elected at the municipal council of Vancouver in 1984, and of 1986 with 1993 Campbell is mayor of Vancouver for three consecutive mandates. He was also president of the regional District of Large Vancouver and president of the Union of the municipalities of Colombia-British.

Campbell and his wife Nancy, director of Howe Sound Secondary School with Squamish (Colombia-British) are married since 1970. They have two children, Geoffrey and Nicholas.

Campbell becomes chief of the Liberal party of the Colombia-British in 1993, and is elected with the legislative Assemblée the following year at the time of a by-election in Vancouver-Quilchena. It represents the circonscriptin of Grey Vancouver-Point since 1996. Its party does not succeed in seizing the power at the time of the general elections of 1996, in spite of to have gained a plurality of the votes, and he remains chief of the opposition under the Prime Ministers néo-democrats Glen Clark, daN Miller and Ujjal Dosanjh. Under Clark and its successors, the rate of satisfaction towards NPD reaches bottom historical grades below 15%, and with the elections of 2001 the liberals of Campbell beat the NPD, gaining 77 of the 79 seats to the legislature.

Prime Minister for the Colombia-British

The day following its Assermentation, Campbella announces a tax cut for the private individuals from approximately 25%, with being introduced over one two years period. The reduction is applied to all the stages of imposition; the tax rate on the first 30.000 $ of incomes is reduced from 8,4% to 6,05%, while the rate for the incomes above 85 000% is reduced from 19,7% to 14,7%. The reductions give the Britanno-Colombians, with equality with the Ontario, the low provincial tax rates for people with incomes going up to 60.000 $. Campbell declares that the reductions will stimulate the economy. Criticisms of government that the cuts reported little to people of average revenue, and which 0,03% of largest the payers of taxes received 14% of the cuts of tax totals. The government of Campbell also reduced the taxes of the companies.

In order to pay for the cuts, the government crosses in the personnel in his ministries, crosses in the programs and services, firm of the hospitals and the schools, and announces a plan to then eliminate the third from the payments in place. The popularity of the government declines during the year 2003 and at the beginning of 2004. In spring 2003, the liberals trail behind the néo-democrats in the opinion polls for the first time since 1994.

In April /mai 2004, Campbell avoids accuracy a general strike after having introduced bill 37 with the legislature. The bill aimed at obliging workers of hospital in strike to resume work, while imposing a retroactive cut of 15% in the wages, of the references, an extension of the working week and the delocalization of trade-union employment. Campbell and her government affirm that the reduction aims at reversing a " contract-cadeau" of end of mandate of the government pro-trade-union néo-democrat. The passage of the law leads to immediate strikes through the Colombia-British, at the same time in the sectors public and private. British Columbia Federation off Ploughing announces plans for a general strike, which would begin on May 3rd, and which would include/understand the teachers, the employees of transport, the workers of the forestry and the steel-works, the employees of the cities, as well as the employees of the libraries, of the community centres and centers entertaining. May 2nd, judge Robert Bowman of the Supreme court of the Colombia-British slices that the trade unions of the field of health were in insult because of their withdrawal of the services. Because of the threat of important fines, the trade unions of the workers of health sign a compromise with the government britanno-Colombian and the strike is cancelled.

Gordon Campbell is among the many political personalities to have supported the idea of the electoral reform. The liberals of Campbell had gained the popular vote with the elections of 1996, but gained less seats than the New Democratic party. Because of this, Campbell questioned the mandate néo-democrat, and thus the legitimacy of the uninominal system to a turn. Before the election of 2001, Gordon Campbell makes political reform and electoral a promise of countryside. The election of 2001 exposes even more non-proportional nature of the system electoral, this time in favor of the liberals of Campbell, who gain 57% of the votes but 97% of the seats.

Giving following their promise of reforms, the new Campbell government founds elections on fixed dates as a Colombia-British, moving away from the usual British parliamentary procedure. Campbell also founds a Parliament citizen made up of Britanno-Colombians selected randomly of everywhere in the province. The Parliament advises the adoption of the system of single vote transferable in the future elections. The question of the adoption of this system (called BC-STV, or British Colombia Single Transferable Votes) is subjected to a referendum in the province; the 57,4% in favor fell right below the 60% necessary so that the measure is adopted. The liberals were criticized adequately not to have encouraged the debate on the question (for example, no debate televised before the referendum). A survey of Ipsos-Reid one month before the elections shows that only 50% of the Britanno-Colombians were with the current is existence of the Parliament citizen or referendum to come. A second referendum is promised for 2008 to leave time to discuss more.

Campbell puts an end to freezing some six years education rights for the colleges and universities britanno-Colombians set up by the government néo-democrat. The freezing of the rights had placed the education rights as a Colombia-British among low with Canada. Since the election of Gordon Campbell, the education rights increased by 88% per annum on average; however, the current education rights are always well in-inside Canadian averages.

External bonds

• official Biography (to drive pdf)

• Site of deputy of Gordon Campbell
• Biography of '' the Canadian encyclopedia ''

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