Dear Friends:

It has been some time since I last updated this website, and much has changed since then. After running in the last federal election as the New Democrat candidate in Vancouver Centre, I returned to my work in early 2006 with the BC Government Employees Union in the Advocacy Department. I was also elected to the national executive of the NDP, and a member of the Federal and BC Election Planning Committees. I was also Co-Chair of the Federal NDP LGBT Committee, and Chair of the Constitution Committee. So a very busy time.

In the spring of 2007, I took on a major new challenge, which has meant moving to France. I was appointed by a major international labour federation, Public Services International, as their Public Services Advocacy Officer. PSI headquarters are in Ferney-Voltaire, France, very close to Geneva. In this exciting new post, I have global responsibility for servicing public administration workers, and for coordinating PSI’s work on globalization and trade issues at the OECD, UN, ILO, WTO and other international and regional bodies. I will work closely with global NGO’s on these issues as well. Taking on the growing power of corporate globalization, fighting privatization and deregulation, and working for quality public services and the right of public sector workers to be treated with dignity and respect…that is my work. A great opportunity. I left the BCGEU reluctantly, as that was also work I valued and enjoyed. In addition to this new job, I was also invited to Co-Chair the 2009 International LGBT Outgames Conference in Copenhagen.

So I recently relocated to a small village near Geneva in the French Alps. Max and our two dogs will join me later in the fall, and together we will embark on this new adventure. Of course, BC will always be home, and I look forward to spending summers at our beautiful place on Parker Island.

Yours,