Debra Toporowski
Debra Toporowski | |||||||||||
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| Qwulti’stunaat 黃德美 | |||||||||||
Campaign portrait, 2024 | |||||||||||
| Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Health of British Columbia | |||||||||||
| Assumed office November 18, 2024 | |||||||||||
| Premier | David Eby | ||||||||||
| Preceded by | Jennifer Rice | ||||||||||
| Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for Cowichan Valley | |||||||||||
| Assumed office October 19, 2024 | |||||||||||
| Preceded by | Sonia Furstenau | ||||||||||
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| Party | BC NDP (2005–present) | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 黃德美 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 黄德美 | ||||||||||
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Debra-Ann Patricia Toporowski (Quw’utsun: Qwulti’stunaat; traditional Chinese: 黃德美; simplified Chinese: 黄德美) MLA is a Canadian politician who has served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (MLA) representing the electoral district of Cowichan Valley since 2024. She is a member of the New Democratic Party, she was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Health of British Columbia in 2024.
First elected as a councillor for the Cowichan Tribes in 2013, Toporowski was re-elected for five terms. She ran as a candidate for the municipal council of North Cowichan in 2018 and served two terms. At the time of her election as an MLA, she was serving as a councillor in both bodies, amid other engagements including serving as acting mayor for North Cowichan and as the director for North Cowichan on the Cowichan Valley Regional District board. Toporowski previously worked as a constituency assistant for MLAs Bill Routley and Doug Routley.