Dan Albas
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Dan Albas MP |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola |
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Assumed office October 19, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | New Electoral District |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Okanagan—Coquihalla |
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In office May 2, 2011 – October 19, 2015 |
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| Succeeded by | Electoral District Redistributed |
| Penticton City Councillor | |
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In office December 1, 2008 – May 2, 2011 |
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December 1, 1976 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Tara |
| Residence | West Kelowna, British Columbia |
| Profession | martial arts instructor |
Dan Albas (born December 1, 1976) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2011 election. He represents the electoral district of Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola as a member of the Conservative Party. In the 41st Canadian Parliament, Albas was appointed to the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities and introduced one piece of legislation, a private members bill called An Act to amend the Importation of Intoxicating Liquors Act (interprovincial importation of wine for personal use) which would allow individuals to import wine from another province for the purpose of personal consumption.
Born in 1976, Dan Albas' family moved to Penticton when he was three years old. With his two sisters, he was raised in mostly in Penticton by a father who worked as a lawyer and was active in conservative politics and a mother who worked as a social worker. The family spent a short time living in Whitehorse, Yukon, but moved to Alberta to seek medical treatment after an accident left Dan with severe burns over much of his body. They moved back to Penticton where Albas attended Penticton Secondary School and Okanagan University College. He worked as a martial arts instructor and in the late-1990s he opened his own martial arts studio, Kick City Martial Arts (later renamed Premier Martial Arts). In 2005 his studio held a fund-raiser in which pledges were taken by students who would break boards with martial arts moves in support of a Hurricane Katrina-related charity. The Penticton and Wine Country Chamber of Commerce named Albas the 2005 young entrepreneur of the year. In the same year Albas became a board member on the Chamber of Commerce and was appointed to represent the region on the British Columbia Chamber of Commerce. He helped merge the independent Chambers of Commerce in Penticton, Okanagan Falls, Oliver and Osoyoos into the South Okanagan Chamber of Commerce. He ran the regional United Way fund-raising campaign in 2007 and again in 2010. In 2008 he became active with a community group called the Penticton Housing Coalition advocating for affordable housing in the city, like secondary suites.
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