2022 April Budget Analysis with MLA Michael de Jong

Join us for a Critical Analysis of the Provincial Budget by Abbotsford West MLA Mike de Jong Q.C., former B.C. Minister of Finance and House Leader.  This is an opportunity to hear from the provincial official opposition about their take on the recent Budget 2022 recently released and to answer some of the questions you may have.  This is a popular event that promises to be insightful and thought-provoking, so please register before it sells out!

About our speaker:



Michael de Jong was re-elected in 2020 as the MLA for Abbotsford West, an area he has represented since first being elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in a 1994 by-election. He currently serves as the Official Opposition Critic for the Attorney General.

Michael has served as the official opposition's Attorney General critic. He has served as Minister of Finance, Minister of Health, Attorney General, Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation, Minister of Labour and Citizens' Services, and Minister of Forests. In addition, he also served as Government House Leader.

He has chaired the Treasury Board and the Legislative Review Committee, and was a member of the Cabinet Working Group on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), the Priorities and Planning Committee, and the Cabinet Working Group on Core Review.

Before his election as a Member of the Legislative Assembly in 1994, de Jong served two terms as an elected school trustee for Abbotsford School District 34, and was a practising lawyer with his own Abbotsford firm. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton University in Ottawa and a law degree from the University of Alberta.

Michael has also been involved with the Abbotsford-Matsqui Arts Council, the Matsqui Youth Commission and holds the rank of Captain in the Canadian Armed Forces Air Force Reserve.

Still an avid hockey player, in his teen years Michael was a member of the Abbotsford Pilots Junior B hockey team. He attended Mouat Secondary School and still lives on the Matsqui Prairie farm where he grew up.