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Send the Hon. Coell/Cruel A Message!
Stop hurting people in need!
Rescind the two year limit on welfare

 


Coell/Cruel billboard
located on Pat Bay Highway from Dec-15-03 to Jan-15-04
Sponsored by End Legislated Poverty
caricature is by Dirk Van Stralen

 

Coell billboard - posted on Pat Bay Highway from Dec. 15 to Jan 15. sponsored by End Legislated Poverty - caricature is by Dirk Van Stralen

text on billboard reads:

Stop hurting people in need.
Rescind the two year limit on welfare.
murray.coell.mla@leg.bc.ca

Below a caricature of the Hon. Murray Coell, there appears the text:
MURRAY COELL with the surname COELL crossed off and the word CRUEL above it.
Minister of Human Resources
MLA,
Saanich North & The Islands

End Legislated Poverty
(604) 879-1209


Hon. Murray Coell

source: http://www.legis.gov.bc.ca/mla/37thparl/coell.htm

image of MLA: Hon. Murray Coell - Saanich North and the Islands - AKA Murray Cruel

MLA: Hon. Murray Coell

Saanich North and the Islands

Minister of Human Resources

Elected: 1996, 2001

British Columbia Liberal Party


E-mail: murray.coell.mla@leg.bc.ca

Office:
Room 301
Parliament Buildings
Victoria, BC   V8V 1X4

Phone: 250 356-7750
Fax: 250 356-7292

Constituency:
Suite F, 2412 Beacon Avenue
Sidney, BC   V8L 1X4

Phone: 250 655-5711
Fax: 250 655-5710

Hon. Murray Coell | MLA Bio | Legislative Assembly of BC

Murray Coell was appointed Minister of Human Resources on June 5, 2001.

Mr. Coell previously served as Official Opposition critic for environment, for children and families, and for social services.

He sat on the Select Standing Committees on Public Accounts, and on Environment and Tourism, as well as the Official Opposition Caucus Committee for Children.

He was first elected in 1996 to represent the riding of Saanich North and the Islands and was re-elected in 2001.

Before his election to the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Coell was a social worker, specializing in alcohol and drug rehabilitation as well as in services to those with mental disabilities. He also owned and operated a small business.

He received his bachelor of arts in social welfare from the University of Victoria.

Mr. Coell sat on Saanich Municipal Council for 12 years, six of them as mayor. He also chaired the Capital Regional District, the Saanich Police board and the Capital Regional District hospital board, and was deputy chair of the Municipal Finance Authority.

He served as a volunteer for 10 years on the board of Silver Threads Meals on Wheels and for five years on the board of the Queen Alexandra Hospital for Children.

Murray and Corinne Coell live in Central Saanich.


 



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Page last updated December 20, 2003 - email for M Coell corrected Jan. 13, 2004