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Kathy Corrigan
Kathy Corrigan is a Canadian politician, who was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2009 provincial election, as well as in the 2013 provincial election. A member of the BC New Democratic Party, she was first elected to represent the riding of Burnaby-Deer Lake. In the 39th Parliament, with her party forming the official opposition, Corrigan acted as the critic for the 2010 Winter Olympics and women's issues, and following the 2011 BC NDP leadership election the critic for Public Safety, Solicitor General and women's issues. She served on the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts in all four sessions and the Select Standing Committee on Crown Corporations in the final two sessions. She currently serves as the Official Opposition Spokesperson for Advanced Education.
==Background==
She was born in Toronto, Ontario, to a mother who worked as a physics teacher and a father who worked as an engineer. The family, which included Kathy and three siblings, moved to Cornwall, Ontario when she was three years old and then to West Vancouver in 1961.〔 She graduated from Sentinel Secondary School when she was 16 years old and went on to study at the University of British Columbia. At the age of 21, she entered UBC Law.〔 It was there, at a social event for law students in March 1976 that she met Derek Corrigan. They spent time together and were married in December. She graduated in 1978 and practiced law before having her first child in 1980, at the age of 26.〔 She decided to focus on raising a family, so she became a full-time mother and had three more children in the next six years. After her children entered high school, Corrigan took a job as a policy researcher for the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the Hospital Employees' Union.〔
After several unsuccessful attempts, her husband Derek was elected to the Burnaby City Council in 1987 and would serve as a councillor until 2002 when he was elected mayor. Derek's enjoyment of being a councillor motivated Kathy to seek a public position, so she stood in Burnaby's (School District 41) 1999 school board election.〔 She won a seat on the seven member board, coming in third in total votes. She was re-elected in the 2002 and 2005 elections, coming in first and second in total votes, respectively. She was elected, each year, by the board to be the vice-chair from 2003 to 2006, and then to be the chair of the board in 2007 and 2008. On school board issues, she resisted regionalization of school districts and public-private partnerships in service delivery. She had a dispute with Burnaby MLA Patty Sahota over what Corrigan believed was political interference and with a fellow board member who attributed good performance at school to specific ethnicities.
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