Judith Reid (born 1954 or 1955)Meet the candidates: Judith Reid: Liberal Nanaimo-Parksville: inal EditionBennett, NelsonView Profile. Nanaimo Daily News anaimo, B.C11 May 2001: A4. is a politician in

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, Canada. She is a former

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(MLA), and was Minister of Transportation for 3 years. First elected in a 1998

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for Parksville-Qualicum, Reid was re-elected in the 2001 general election as MLA for

Nanaimo-Parksville Nanaimo-Parksville was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada from 2001 to 2009. Demographics Geography History 1999 redistribution Nanaimo-Parksville created from parts of Nanaimo a ...

. From June 2001 to January 2004, she served as BC's Minister of Transportation. Her term was marked by the controversial 2003 lease of

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assets and right-of-way to Canadian National Railway. Reid did not run for re-election in 2005. An entrepreneur, Reid has worked on several business ventures, including development of a shellfish farm on

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. She served on the executive of the BC Shellfish Growers Association. Reid has four sons and four grandchildren. She

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her children for some of their school years.

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Official government bio
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