Elmore is currently setting up her community office, which will be opened later this month. She is already dealing with a wide variety of concerns from her constituents on issues such as affordable housing, class sizes in schools, and workplace conditions. New Democrat Leader Carole James was excited to welcome Elmore to the team.
“As a party we’ve made a commitment to bringing more diverse community voices into the legislature. It’s exciting to have British Columbia ’s first Filipino MLA join our team in Victoria .” Elmore was born in Langley in 1969, four years after her mother immigrated to Canada from Cebu in the Philippines . Elmore has lived in Vancouver for the past 20 years. For the 10 years prior to her election, she was a bus driver with the regional transit system. She is well known in the community as lifelong activist for peace and human rights.
On, June 30, 2010, Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III was sworn in as the 15th president of the Republic of the Philippines. Associate Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales and Jesuit Fr. Catalino Arevalo, a close friend of the Aquinos, who held the bible, swore in the only son of former Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino and former president Corazon Cojuangco Aquino. To most Filipinos, this day was very memorable because it symbolizes the beginning of a new hope for the country, the hope of a clean and honest government.
