{{Short description|Canadian politician (born 1949 or 1950)}} {{For|the anti-whaling activist|Joan McIntyre (activist)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth based on age as of date|55|2005|5|11}}<ref>West Vancouver -- Garibaldi: [Final Edition] North Shore News [North Vancouver, B.C] 11 May 2005: 3.</ref> | birth_place = | assembly = British Columbia Legislative | constituency_AM = West Vancouver-Sea to Sky<br>{{small|West Vancouver-Garibaldi (2005-2009)}} | term_start = May 17, 2005 | term_end = May 14, 2013 | predecessor = Ted Nebbeling | successor = Jordan Sturdy | office1 = Minister of State for Intergovernmental Relations of British Columbia | premier1 = Gordon Campbell | term_start1 = June 23, 2008 | term_end1 = June 10, 2009 | predecessor1 = John van Dongen | successor1 = Naomi Yamamoto | party = British Columbia Liberal Party | spouse = Andrew Pottinger | occupation = | alma_mater = Trinity College, Toronto }}
'''Joan McIntyre''' (born 1949 or 1950) is a former Canadian politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of British Columbia, representing the electoral district of West Vancouver-Garibaldi from 2005 to 2009, and West Vancouver-Sea to Sky from 2009 to 2013. As part of the British Columbia Liberal Party caucus, she served as Minister of State for Intergovernmental Relations from 2008 to 2009 under Premier Gordon Campbell.
==Biography== McIntyre grew up in Toronto, Ontario, and studied political science at the University of Toronto's Trinity College, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in 1971.<ref name="BCLeg38">{{cite web|url=https://www.leg.bc.ca/members/38th-Parliament/McIntyre-Joan|title=MLA: Hon. Joan McIntyre|publisher=Legislative Assembly of British Columbia|access-date=2024-11-01}}</ref> She co-founded the polling firm McIntyre & Mustel Research Associates Ltd. in 1980, before selling her interest in the firm in 1996.<ref name="BCLeg38"/> She and her husband Andrew Pottinger have two children together.<ref name="BCLeg38"/>
She served on the BC Liberal riding executive for West Vancouver-Garibaldi for 12 years, and was president for six of those years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/cover-stories/joan-mcintyre-liberal-2469862|title=Joan McIntyre, Liberal|publisher=Pique Newsmagazine|date=2005-05-06|access-date=2024-11-01}}</ref> With that riding's incumbent Liberal MLA Ted Nebbeling declining to seek re-election, McIntyre sought and won the Liberal nomination,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thetyee.ca/Views/2005/05/14/RememberNDPStructuralDeficit/print.html|title=Remember the NDP's Supposed $5 Billion 'Structural Deficit'?|publisher=The Tyee|first=Will|last=McMartin|date=2005-05-14|access-date=2024-11-01}}</ref> and was elected the riding's MLA by a margin of 5,573 votes in the 2005 provincial election.<ref name="CBC13">{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/west-vancouver-sea-to-sky-1.1397155|title=West Vancouver-Sea to Sky|publisher=CBC News|date=2013-04-29|access-date=2024-11-01}}</ref> She was named to Premier Gordon Campbell's cabinet in June 2008 as Minister of State for Intergovernmental Relations.<ref name="BCLeg38"/><ref name="CampbellCabinet">{{cite web|title=Campbell Cabinet: 37th Parliament 2001-2005, 38th Parliament 2005-2009, 39th Parliament 2009-2011 |url=https://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/reference/campbell_cabinet.pdf|publisher=Legislative Assembly of British Columbia|accessdate=2024-11-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/premier-names-new-cabinet-heading-into-election-1.742501|title=Premier names new cabinet heading into election|publisher=CBC News|date=2008-06-23|access-date=2024-11-01}}</ref> In 2009, she was re-elected to the same riding under its new name of West Vancouver-Sea to Sky by a margin of 6,019 votes,<ref name="CBC13"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whistlerquestion.com/article/20090513/WHISTLER01/305139830/1030/whistler/mcintyre-re-elected|title=Joan McIntyre re-elected|publisher=Whistler Question|first=Kim|last=Vanlochem|date=2009-05-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529174402/http://www.whistlerquestion.com/joan-mcintyre-re-elected-1.1286213|archive-date=2015-05-29|url-status=dead}}</ref> but did not return to the cabinet.<ref name="CampbellCabinet"/>
During her time in the legislature, McIntyre had sat on the Cabinet Committee on Families and was the chair of the Select Standing Committee on Children and Youth.<ref name="BCLeg39">{{cite web|url=http://www.leg.bc.ca/mla/39thParl/mcintyrej.htm|title=MLA: Joan McIntyre|publisher=Legislative Assembly of British Columbia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160223094117/https://www.leg.bc.ca/pages/bclass-legacy.aspx#%2Fcontent%2Flegacy%2Fweb%2Fmla%2F39thParl%2FmcintyreJ.htm|archive-date=2016-02-23|url-status=dead}}</ref> As well, McIntyre previously sat on four Cabinet Committees: Agenda and Priorities, Agenda Development, Legislative Review and Treasury Board. She also served as the Deputy Chair of the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts, and was a member on the Select Standing Committee on Crown Corporations and the Agricultural Planning Government Caucus Committee.<ref name="BCLeg38"/>
She announced in September 2012 that she would not run again in the following year's provincial election.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-cabinet-minister-2-other-mlas-to-call-it-quits-1.1249189|title=B.C. cabinet minister, 2 other MLAs to call it quits|publisher=CBC News|date=2012-09-05|access-date=2024-11-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.squamishchief.com/local-news/mcintyre-wont-seek-re-election-3330547|title=McIntyre won't seek re-election|publisher=The Squamish Chief|date=2012-09-06|access-date=2024-11-01}}</ref>
==References== <references />
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100720093525/http://www.joanmcintyremla.bc.ca/ Joan McIntyre, MLA for West Vancouver-Sea to Sky] * [http://www.leg.bc.ca/mla/39thParl/mcintyrej.htm Official Biography, Legislative Assembly of British Columbia]
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