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Bill Siksay is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Burnaby—Douglas from 2004 to 2011. He was born on 11 March 1955 in Oshawa, Ontario.
Siksay attended the University of Toronto, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977. He then attended the University of British Columbia, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in Political Science in 1981.
Siksay began his political career in the early 1990s, when he was elected to the Burnaby City Council. He served on the council from 1993 to 2004.
In 2004, Siksay was elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Burnaby—Douglas. He was re-elected in 2006 and 2008.
In 2011, Siksay announced that he would not seek re-election in the 2011 federal election.
Siksay is currently the Executive Director of the British Columbia Association of People with Disabilities.
As of 2021, Bill Siksay's net worth is estimated to be approximately $1 million.
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When Robinson resigned the Burnaby—Douglas seat in April 2004 due to a controversy around his theft of a piece of jewellery, Siksay won the nomination to replace Robinson as the NDP candidate in the upcoming election, and won the riding in the 2004 federal election on June 28.
On July 2, 2014, Siksay began as Administrative Assistant to the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster, the Right Reverend Melissa Skelton and to the Executive Archdeacon of the Diocese, the Venerable Douglas Fenton in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
On December 16, 2010, Siksay announced that he would not run again in the subsequent election. His seat was retained for the New Democrats by Kennedy Stewart in the 2011 federal election.
In January 2006, Siksay was re-elected to the Burnaby—Douglas seat with a slightly increased plurality, with a margin of 2.5% (versus 2% in 2004). He was again re-elected by a narrow margin in the 2008 election.
In May 2005, Siksay introduced a bill to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity or expression. He reintroduced the bill in the next parliament. In May 2009 he introduced it again, with additional provisions to add gender identity and expression to the hate crimes provisions of the Criminal Code. By June 2010, the private member's bill (C-389) had proceeded to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, with little overt opposition from the Conservative Party of Canada minority government evident. It passed at report stage by a vote of 143-131 on December 8, and passed at third reading by a vote of 143-135, in each case including members of all parties voting in favour.
With his election, Siksay became the first openly gay non-incumbent man to be elected to Canada's House of Commons. All of the previous MPs to come out as gay (Robinson, Libby Davies, Réal Ménard and Scott Brison) came out after they were elected, and Mario Silva came out in a Toronto Star profile shortly after the 2004 election.
Prior to running for elected office, he was constituency assistant to Svend Robinson for over 18 years. He also ran in the 1997 election in the riding of Vancouver Centre, but lost to incumbent Hedy Fry.
Siksay was born in Oshawa, Ontario, to parents Patricia and William Siksay. Receiving his high school diploma from McLaughlin Collegiate and Vocational Institute in Oshawa, Ontario, Siksay attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto, graduating with a BA in 1978. He then enrolled in the MDiv programme at the Vancouver School of Theology at the University of British Columbia, studying as a candidate to be a congregational minister in the United Church of Canada. He was one of the first people to come out as gay or lesbian in the process of his ordination and helped start the debate in the church on the ordination and commissioning of openly gay or lesbian candidates. He did not complete the programme and was not ordained.
William Livingstone Siksay (born March 11, 1955) is a Canadian politician, and was the Member of Parliament (MP) who represented the British Columbia riding of Burnaby—Douglas for the New Democratic Party from 2004 to 2011.