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In the lead up to the 2025 federal election, Iain Black told Vancouver is Awesome, “I thought my days as an MLA and minister were behind me. But witnessing the decline of our community — due to rising affordability issues, increasing crime, and a relentless wave of overdose-related deaths — I could no longer stand idly by.”
Despite coming up short in the federal election in Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam, Black has retained his passion for public service.
Black’s resumé includes cabinet posts between 2005 and 2011 in the B.C. Liberal government of Gordon Campbell, serving as minister of labour, minister of small business, technology and economic development and minister of labour and citizen services. He left politics to take on the role of President and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.
During the early days of the internet explosion in the 1990s, Black spent his professional career in the tech sector. He founded internet companies. Following his eight years at the helm of the Board of Trade, Black returned to the tech sector as president & CEO of Maximizer, a Concord Group company.
Black joined a Conversation That Matters about his bid to win the leadership of the B.C. Conservative party. See the video at vancouversun.com/tag/conversations-that-matter.
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Join us April 28 for Conversations Live , the B.C. Conservative party leadership candidates panel.