Brian Wong | |
Birth Name: | Brian Joseph Wong |
Birth Date: | 23 February 1963[1] |
Birth Place: | Digby, Nova Scotia |
Honorific-Suffix: | MLA |
Assembly: | Nova Scotia House of |
Constituency Am: | Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank |
Term Start: | August 17, 2021 |
Predecessor: | Bill Horne |
Party: | Progressive Conservative |
Brian Joseph Wong[2] (born February 23, 1963) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2021 Nova Scotia general election.[3] He represents the riding of Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank as a member of the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia. He was the first Nova Scotian of Chinese descent elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.[4]
He previously ran in the same district in the 2013 Nova Scotia general election, losing to Bill Horne.[5]
On August 31, 2021, Wong was made Minister of Advanced Education.[6]