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Profile of Art Phillips
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Art Phillips |
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10th February 1955 |
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Erie, Pennsylvania, USA |
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Art Phillips (born 1930) served as mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 1973 to 1977. Prior to being elected to this post, he was instrumental in founding a reform-minded, centrist municipal-level political party, TEAM (The Electors' Action Movement), in 1968. Also in that year, he was elected as an alderman to Vancouver City Council.
Under Phillips' mayoral leadership, the city of Vancouver took a more cautious approach to real estate and related development and ensured that environmental and quality-of-life concerns were addressed by city planners.
Phillips was elected to the Parliament of Canada in 1979 as a Liberal, but was defeated the following year in his bid for re-election.
His wife, Carole Taylor, served as a Vancouver alderman in the 1980s and then as chair of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In the 2005 British Columbia election she won election to the British Columbia Legislative Assembly as a Liberal and was subsequently appointed Minister of Finance in Gordon Campbell's cabinet.
See also: List of Mayors of Vancouver.
Preceded by:
Ron Basford |
Member of Parliament for Vancouver Centre
1979-1980 |
Succeeded by:
Pat Carney |
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