Minister Fassbender: Building strong communities through leadership and collaboration
The Honourable
Peter Fassbender
In his address to The Vancouver Board of Trade, Minister Fassbender will discuss challenges and opportunities facing local governments in Metro Vancouver, while providing his thoughts on TransLink.
The B.C. Government recognizes the crucial importance of a strong economy, a prosperous business sector and good jobs for British Columbians. In his role as Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, Minister Fassbender is working with local governments to help communities across B.C. — both urban and rural — succeed as great places to live, work, invest and play.
Since being appointed as Minister for TransLink a few months ago, Minister Fassbender has emphasized the importance of working together collaboratively — including the Mayors' Council, TransLink board of directors, and TransLink management, with the support of the provincial government — to find solutions for transit and transportation in the Metro region.
Join Minister Fassbender as he identifies some of the challenges, as well as a path forward on these important files.
About the Speaker
Peter Fassbender was elected MLA for Surrey-Fleetwood on May 14, 2013.
On July 30, 2015 Peter was appointed Minister of Community, Sport, Cultural Development and Minister Responsible for Translink. He previously served as Minister of Education and currently serves on the Cabinet Committee on Secure Tomorrow.
Prior to his election to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Peter served as a Councillor for the City of Langley for three years before being elected as Mayor in the November 2005, 2008 and 2011 Civic elections.
Peter also served the community and region in a host of volunteer capacities and on numerous national, provincial and civic committees. Peter was recognized as a leader in his community and the region and was recently awarded a Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal.
In his business career Peter worked in radio and television as well as a number of other communications fields. For 29 years in his career he was a partner and senior executive with DDB Canada (formerly Palmer Jarvis), one of Canada's largest and most successful marketing and communications firms. In that capacity he dealt with both public and private sector clients at the local, national, and international levels. A major focus of his private sector career was social marketing campaigns including smoking cessation projects for Health Canada and international marketing activities for Industry Canada.
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