Melanie Mark, a member of the B.C. legislature and two-time cabinet minister, is stepping down as MLA for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, she announced in the legislature Wednesday.
The former tourism minister, who resigned from cabinet and took a medical leave in September, cited personal and systemic reasons in her decision to leave provincial politics on Wednesday.
Mark, whose legislature biography describes her as "the first First Nations woman Member of the Legislative Assembly in British Columbia's history," was first elected in a byelection in 2016. She also helped launch the world's first Indigenous Law Program at the University of Victoria in 2018. "They are allergic to doing things differently, particularly colonial institutions like this legislative assembly and government at large."
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