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MLA: Doug Routley Nanaimo-North Cowichan Elected: 2005, 2009 NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

E-mail: douglas.routley.mla@leg.bc.ca
Office: Room 201 Parliament Buildings Victoria, BC V8V 1X4		Constituency: PO Box 269 524 1st Avenue Ladysmith, BC V9G 1A2
Phone:	250 387-3655	Phone:	250 245-9375
Fax:	250 387-4680	Fax:	250 245-8164

Doug Routley was elected as the MLA for Nanaimo-North Cowichan on May 12, 2009. He served as MLA for Cowichan-Ladysmith from May 17, 2005 until the riding boundaries were re-drawn.

Doug serves as opposition critic for Citizens’ Services.

Doug was born May 9, 1961 in New Westminster, BC and grew up in Duncan. 

He comes from a family of educators and attended the public schools of the Cowichan Valley and attended Camosun College before traveling to Japan, where he lived and worked for one year.

Doug has experience in logging, as a sawmill worker, treeplanter and in construction. He also has been a business owner and operator, school custodian and School Trustee.

While in Japan, Doug taught English and studied Sumea, traditional Japanese ink painting. He was a bicycle racer and while training in Japan, met a bicycle manufacturer. After his return to Canada, Doug established a bicycle retail and wholesale company which had dealers throughout Canada and the USA.

Doug has two daughters, Sasha, 21 and Madeline, 13.