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May 27, 1966 New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada 57 years old
Canadian environmentalist and politician
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Fin Donnelly - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Fin Donnelly
- Fin Donnelly (born May 27, 1966) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada to represent the electoral district of Port Moody—Coquitlam.
- He is a member of the New Democratic Party.
- Donnelly was first elected as a member of parliament in a by-election on November 9, 2009, in the New Westminster—Coquitlam electoral district.
- In the one year he spent in the 40th Canadian Parliament, he acted as the party's fisheries critic and introduced six private member bills.
- He was re-elected in 2011 and in the ensuing 41st Parliament he re-introduced the same six bills, two of which, concerning the crime of luring a child were adopted, were adopted in the Safe Streets and Communities Act.
- He also introduced the bill titled Ban on Shark Fin Importation Act which was voted upon but defeated by the Conservative Party majority.
- He acted was the official opposition's critic on Fisheries and Oceans until the 2012 leadership election after which Tom Mulcair moved him over to critic on Western Economic Diversification and then demoted him to role of deputy critic.
- Donnelly again won re-election in the 2015 federal election and was promoted back to fisheries critic.
- In the 42nd Parliament he re-introduced his previous bill to make closed containment facilities mandatory for commercial finfish aquaculture but the bill was defeated. Prior to his election as a federal MP, he served seven years, from 2002 to 2009, on city council in his hometown of Coquitlam.
- Prior to that, Donnelly was a marathon swimmer between 1990 and 2002 during which time he swam the length of the Fraser River twice, as well as the Strait of Georgia, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and across Pitt Lake, Okanagan Lake, and Quesnel Lake. Donnelly announced that he would not be standing in the 2019 federal election.
