Jean Crowder
{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| name = Jean A. Crowder
| honorific-suffix =
| image = Jean Crowder.jpg
|office1 = Shadow Minister for Human Resources
|leader1 = Jack Layton
Nycole Turmel
|term_start1 = May 26, 2011
|term_end1 = April 18, 2012
|predecessor1 = Mike Savage
|successor1 = Chris Charlton
| riding3 = Nanaimo—Cowichan
| parliament3 = Canadian
| term_start3 = June 28, 2004
| term_end3 = October 19, 2015
| predecessor3 = Reed Elley
| successor3 = riding dissolved
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1952|07|07}}
| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = New Democratic Party
| spouse = divorced
| residence = Duncan, British Columbia
| profession = human resources consultant, manager
| footnotes =
| office2 = Chair of the Standing Committee on
Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics
| minister2 = Peter Penashue
| term_start2 = 4 October 2011
| term_end2 = 23 April 2012
| predecessor2 = Nathan Cullen
| successor2 = Pierre-Luc Dusseault
}}
Jean A. Crowder (born July 7, 1952) is a Canadian businesswoman and politician. She served as a Member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party from 2004 until 2015.
Life and career
Crowder was born in Montreal, Quebec. She received a degree in psychology from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.
A human resources consultant and manager by profession, Crowder was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the first time in the 2004 election as the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament for the British Columbia riding of Nanaimo—Cowichan. Before she won federal office, she was a councillor in the District Municipality of North Cowichan from 2003 to 2004.{{Cite web |last=Maguire |first=Maeve |date=2014-12-09 |title=Station: The interview — Jean Crowder |url=https://www.ladysmithchronicle.com/news/station-the-interview-jean-crowder-851118 |access-date=2024-06-10 |website=Ladysmith Chemainus Chronicle |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=January 23, 2014 |title=Veteran BC New Democrat MP Jean Crowder not running in 2015 |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/veteran-bc-new-democrat-mp-jean-crowder-not-running-in-2015-1.2508668 |work=CBC}} She has worked at Malaspina University-College, Human Resources Development Canada, and the BC Ministry of Skills Training & Labour.
In the NDP's shadow cabinet, she served as the Human Resources and Skills Development Critic, the Critic for Health, Community Economic Development and the Status of Women, and the Critic for Aboriginal Affairs.{{cite web | title=NDP Shadow Cabinet| url=https://www.ndp.ca/shadow-cabinet| accessdate=2012-07-04}}
In the 2008 federal election, she defeated nearest rival Reed Elley, a former MP running for the Conservatives, by over 4,000 votes. After the election, she announced her support for proportional representation to be utilized during Canada's next election.{{cite web|title=MP Jean Crowder said she will push for proportional representation |work=LakeCowichanGazette.com |url=http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_central/lakecowichangazette/news/31375409.html |accessdate=2008-11-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024201431/http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_central/lakecowichangazette/news/31375409.html |archivedate=October 24, 2008 }} She did not run in the 2015 federal election.{{cite web | url=
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/nanaimo-cowichan-mp-jean-crowder-won-t-run-in-next-election-1.799536|author=Cindy Hartnett|title=Nanaimo-Cowichan MP Jean Crowder won't run in next election|publisher=Times Colonist|date=January 23, 2014|accessdate=July 25, 2015}} Following the 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, which took effect with the 2015 election, her riding was abolished and its territory transferred to the new ridings Cowichan—Malahat—Langford and Nanaimo—Ladysmith. In that election, New Democrat candidates Alistair MacGregor (a former constituency assistant to Crowder) and Sheila Malcolmson held the new ridings for the party.
After leaving the House, she supported Guy Caron in the 2017 New Democratic Party leadership election.{{cite magazine| url=https://thetyee.ca/News/2017/06/13/Crowder-for-Caron/| title=Jean Crowder, Former Vancouver Island MP, to Endorse Guy Caron for NDP Leadership| first=Jeremy| last=Nuttall| date=June 13, 2017| magazine=The Tyee| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816003953/https://thetyee.ca/News/2017/06/13/Crowder-for-Caron/| archive-date=August 16, 2017}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.jeancrowder.ca/ Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813074306/http://www.jeancrowder.ca/ |date=August 13, 2006 }}
- [http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/ProfileMP.aspx?Key=78928&Language=E Parliament webpage]
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Category:Anglophone Quebec people
Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from British Columbia
Category:New Democratic Party MPs
Category:People from Duncan, British Columbia
Category:Politicians from Montreal
Category:Wilfrid Laurier University alumni
Category:Women members of the House of Commons of Canada
Category:Women in British Columbia politics
Category:21st-century members of the House of Commons of Canada