FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, SEPT. 23, 2026, VANCOUVER, BC—CentreBC Leader Elenore Sturko is pleased to welcome Andrew Weaver as the party’s candidate in Oak Bay-Gordon Head.
Weaver previously represented Oak Bay-Gordon Head in the Legislative Assembly from 2013 to 2020.
“I am very pleased to welcome Andrew as a candidate, and I know his experience will be an asset in the BC Legislature,” says CentreBC Leader Elenore Sturko. “I look forward to working with Andrew on this campaign and I thank him for choosing to step forward to represent the people of Oak Bay-Gordon Head.”
Before entering politics, Weaver spent 34 years at the University of Victoria, where he held the Canada Research Chair in climate modelling and analysis in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and served as Lansdowne Professor. He was a lead author on four assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, work recognized with the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was appointed to the Order of British Columbia in 2008.
Weaver was the first Green Party MLA elected in British Columbia, and led the party from 2015 to 2020 — a period in which the party won three seats and held the balance of power in the legislature.
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