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Honourable Bill Bennett

Bill Bennett was re-elected as MLA for Kootenay East on May 12, 2009.

He previously served as Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts since June 23, 2008. In 2007, he became chair of the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services, a member of the Select Standing Committee on Children and Youth, and chair of the B.C. Outdoor Caucus. He previously served as minister of state for mining.

Minister Bennett was elected to represent the riding of East Kootenay in the 2001 provincial election and re-elected in 2005. He served on the Government Caucus Committee on Natural Resources and served on the Kootenay Caucus. He was also deputy chair of the Parliamentary Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts, a member of the Premier’s Olympic Live Sites Committee, the Caucus Committee on Treaties, the Waste Management Review Committee and is a legislative member of the committee for the Pacific Northwest Economic Region.

Before being elected, Minister Bennett was a partner in a Cranbrook law firm. In 1976, he earned an honours degree in English from the University of Guelph and in 1992 a law degree from Queen’s University.