The Dosanjh ministry was the combined

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(formally the

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) that governed

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from February 24, 2000, to June 5, 2001. It was led by

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, the 33rd

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, and consisted of members of the

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(NDP). The Dosanjh ministry was in office for the last fourteen months of the

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. It was the third ministry to exist during that parliament, following the

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(1996–1999) and the Miller ministry (1999–2000). Dosanjh was sworn in as premier on February 24, 2000, with his initial cabinet following five days later. Following the 2001 election, which the NDP lost, it was replaced by the

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List of ministers

Cabinet shuffles

Dosanjh shuffled his cabinet on November 1, 2000. The shuffle was undertaken to replace seven cabinet ministers who had decided not run in the impending election. In a surprise move, Dosanjh named

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, the Grand Chief of the First Nations Summit of British Columbia and not an MLA, to cabinet. John was the second indigenous cabinet minister in BC, after

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in the 1970s.

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