WILKINSON, WATTS ARE IN
Pair seek Liberal leadership
ANDREW WILKINSON
Age: 60 Current Role: MLA, Vancouver-Quilchena
Lives in: Vancouver
Before entering politics, Wilkinson lived and worked as a doctor in northern British Columbia, and worked as a lawyer in the Vancouver offices of major national law firm McCarthy Tetrault.
Wilkinson holds degrees from the
University of Alberta, Dalhousie University and Oxford University, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar.
Wilkinson held several jobs in
Christy Clark’s cabinet. He served as minister of technology, innovation and citizens’ services in 2013, and was appointed as minister of advanced education in 2014.
DIANNE WATTS
Age: 57 Current Role: MP, South Surrey-White Rock
Lives in: Surrey
Watts served on Surrey city council before running for mayor as an Independent. She was elected in 2005, becoming the city’s first female mayor, and served in the role until 2014.
During Watts’s mayoralty, Surrey had the lowest residential and business tax rates in Metro Vancouver.
Watts holds honorary doctor of laws degrees from the Justice Institute of British Columbia and Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Watts serves as the Conservative party’s critic for infrastructure, communities and urban affairs.