Paul Nettleton is a lawyer and former politician from
British Columbia
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,
Canada
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. He was called to the bar in 1993.
A member of the
British Columbia Liberal Party
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, he was elected from
Prince George-Omineca
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to the
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
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in 1996 and re-elected in
2001
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.
On November 13, 2002 he publicly opposed the Campbell government's introduction of Bill 10 to break up and
privatize
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the
BC Hydro
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electric utility
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. He was removed from
caucus
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several days later and sat as an Independent Liberal until the
2005 election. In that election he ran as an independent candidate in
Prince George-Mount Robson
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Geography
History
The riding was created for the 1991 election from part of Prince George South. ...
, but placed third out of five with 2,158 votes. In 2006 Nettleton began to work as a "Poverty Lawyer" for Legal Services of
Nunavut
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. In 2008 he was promoted to Executive Director for Legal Services of Nunavut where he was responsible for the delivery of legal services throughout the Territory. At that time he lived in the capital of Nunavut,
Iqaluit
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. In November 2009, he joined the law firm of Robson O'Connor located in his hometown of
Ladysmith BC, on
Vancouver Island
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. In January 2011, he became a partner in the law firm.
He is married to Elite and has two children, Disa and Thorin.
References
External links
web page at his law firm
British Columbia Liberal Party MLAs
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian lawyers
Lawyers in British Columbia
21st-century Canadian politicians
People from Ladysmith, British Columbia
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