Paul Nettleton is a lawyer and former politician from

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. He was called to the bar in 1993. A member of the

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, he was elected from

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to the

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in 1996 and re-elected in

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. On November 13, 2002 he publicly opposed the Campbell government's introduction of Bill 10 to break up and

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the

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. He was removed from

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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

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, but placed third out of five with 2,158 votes. In 2006 Nettleton began to work as a "Poverty Lawyer" for Legal Services of

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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,

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. In November 2009, he joined the law firm of Robson O'Connor located in his hometown of Ladysmith BC, on

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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.

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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 {{BritishColumbia-MLA-stub, Nettleton, Paul