Mike Farnworth

Port Coquitlam


Deputy Premier, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, Minister Responsible for ICBC
Mike's Community Office
107A - 2748 Lougheed Hwy, Port Coquitlam, V3B 6P2
604-927-2088

About Mike

Mike Farnworth was re-elected as MLA for Port Coquitlam in 2020. He was first elected as MLA for Port Coquitlam-Burke Mountain in 1991, and re-elected in 1996, 2005, 2009 2013, and 2017. He is the Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General and the Minister Responsible for ICBC. In November of 2021, he was appointed Deputy Premier of British Columbia. He also serves as a member of the Planning and Priorities Committee and the Cabinet Committee on Social Initiatives.

Mike served as the Official Opposition spokesperson for Justice (Public Safety and Solicitor General), and as the Official Opposition Caucus House Leader.

Mike was raised in Port Coquitlam and has lived there for more than 40 years. He earned a bachelor’s degree in geography at Simon Fraser University and was elected to Port Coquitlam city council for three terms in 1983, 1985 and 1990.

As MLA, he served in numerous cabinet positions, including minister of health and minister of municipal affairs and housing.

From 2001 to 2004, Mike worked in Bulgaria, the Balkans and most recently Iraq on democratic governance programs to help build multiparty democracies in former one-party states.

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