13 CHRIS GARDNER

PRESIDENT, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS AND BUSINESS ASSOCIATION OF BC PREVIOUSLY #37,2014

Many people don’t know his

name, but this former lawyer, who once worked for Samsung in South Korea, has significant influence in political circles. Gardner currently leads the Independent Contractors and Businesses Association of B.C., which has become a leading force opposing the NDP government on a wide range of issues. His group ran an aggressive PR campaign to save the Site C project, something the NDP decided to proceed with in the end. Gardner, who ran the modular-building company Britco for nine years, worked with both former premier Christy Clark and former Surrey mayor Dianne Watts at points, but he seems to prefer life outside government bureaucracies.