Raymond Chan

Raymond Chan (; born October 25, 1951) is a Canadian engineer and politician. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, he represented the electoral district of Richmond in the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 2000, and from 2004 to 2008. He is the first Chinese Canadian to be named to the Privy Council of Canada. Chan emigrated to Canada in 1969, two years after Canada liberalized its immigration policy. He received a B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1977, then worked as an engineer for TRIUMF, a particle accelerator laboratory at UBC, until 1993.

Political career Chan joined the Liberal Party of Canada in 1991 after serving as the inaugural president of the Vancouver Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movement in China. becoming the third Chinese Canadian to be elected to the House of Commons after Douglas Jung in 1957, and Art Lee in 1974. He was subsequently appointed by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien as the Secretary of State for the Asia-Pacific Region for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He joined the private sector following his defeat, serving as president of Global Business Development Inc. He returned to Parliament in the 2004 election by defeating Conservative candidate Alice Wong and New Democratic Party candidate Dale Jackaman, He then sought nomination as a Richmond Liberal again in 2009, but lost to Peschisolido. He has been a major fundraiser for political candidates since leaving office.

Electoral history