David O. Marley

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David Owen Marley, (b. March 27, 1952 in Hartlepool, United Kingdom) is a Canadian political activist, former lawyer and former BC government aide.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Education 3 Political experience 4 Legal experience 5 Political activism 6 Independent campaign 7 Notes

[edit] Early life

David Marley was born March 27, 1952 in Hartlepool, United Kingdom to Jean (a secretary) and Norman (an engineer) Marley. In 1955 he immigrated with his parents to Canada.

The Marley family settled into the Capilano Highlands area of the District of North Vancouver, British Columbia. He attended Capilano Heights Elementary School and Handswoth Secondary School.

His earliest political activism started with putting up signs for the campaign of Ron Huntington, the 1974 Progressive-Conservative candidate for Capilano.

[edit] Education

1974: Bachelor of Arts – University of BC. Studies focused on economics, history and politics.

1977: Bachelor of Laws – University of Toronto. Served as Co-Chairman, 14th Annual Conference on Law and Contemporary Affairs, on the topic “The Regulated Society: the intrusive role of modern governments”.

1998: Master of Science (Business Administration) – University of BC. Studies focused on public policy analysis and government-business relations. Thesis written on the topic, “Life in the Shadows: the role and relative importance of political exempt staff in the public policy-making process”.

[edit] Political experience

1981-1983: Director of Legal Services for the Progressive-Conservative Party of Canada.

1983-1985: Senior Adviser to the Attorney-General of British Columbia.

1985-1986: Executive Director of the Social Credit Party of British Columbia.

[edit] Legal experience

Marley practised law privately 1978-1980 and then 1986 to 1997 when he retired. His practise mostly focused on civil and commercial litigation.

He also was involved in some "victim's rights" cases. Marley successfully lobbied for an amendment to the Canada Bankruptcy Act which imposed permanent liability for civil court judgements in assault cases^[1].

Marley also successfully argued before the Supreme Court of Canada in the Mochinski case ^[2]for the imposition of governmental liability respecting the negligence of independent contractors.

[edit] Political activism

In 1998 Marley was a founder of Fair Voting BC, a non-profit, non-partisan group that promoted electoral reform, which was instrumental in BC having a referendum in 2005 on the BC-STV (Single Transferable Vote System).

In the fall of 2008 Marley was the campaign manager for Michael Lewis, who (successfully) ran for councillar in the West Vancouver, B.C., civic elections. Lewis refused to seek the endorsement of an unregistered political group, West Vancouver Citizens for Good Government (WVCGG)^[3]. Previous civic candidates had paid and submitted to a secret interview process to get WVCGG's endorsement^[4]. Marley and Lewis reported to the police that WVCGG and another shadowy group Low Tax, Low Growth had violated the BC Local Government Act^[5]. [It was subsequently revealed that most, though not Lewis, 2008 West Vancouver civic candidates gave money to WVCGG ^[6].]

In August 2008 he was a founding director of Medicare For Autism Now, which lobbies the Canadian Federal government to amend the Canada Health Act to pay for autism treatment.

[edit] Independent campaign

On February 28, 2009 in the District of North Vancouver (about half the riding is in the district of North Vancouver) ^[7] ) Marley launched his campaign as an Independent candidate in British Columbia's West Vancouver-Capilano riding against incumbent Liberal MLA Ralph Sultan. ^{[8] [9]} Commentators compared Marley to Don Quixote or stated he had not made it easy for himself since West Vancouver-Capilano is probably the safest seat for the Liberals in BC^[10][11].

[edit] Notes

1. ^ http://www2.canada.com/northshorenews/news/viewpoint/story.html?id=92057fe2-e0d0-433c-b3d5-9285b6603604
2. ^ http://csc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/1997/1997rcs3-1176/1997rcs3-1176.html
3. ^ http://www2.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=e5ffa2ac-e3c8-4f23-89a6-ebd1cb54b897
4. ^ http://www.canada.com/northshorenews/news/story.html?id=39aebc30-9ad6-4e35-94dd-b1373a625a0a
5. ^ http://www.bclocalnews.com/greater_vancouver/northshoreoutlook/news/35153229.html
6. ^ http://www2.canada.com/northshorenews/news/story.html?id=a87712b6-5c86-477c-9801-f817937c962f
7. ^ http://www.elections.bc.ca/docs/map/redis08/edva/WCA_EDVA_MAP1of4.pdf
8. ^ http://www2.canada.com/northshorenews/news/story.html?id=d3e8bc71-74a8-4cba-bbc1-6ad7220fa5ae
9. ^ http://www2.canada.com/northshorenews/news/letters/story.html?id=4eb66fe4-bbb0-406f-9ded-064f7853ae4c
10. ^ http://www2.canada.com/northshorenews/news/viewpoint/story.html?id=deec8f26-e788-4eab-a7dd-1cf2fc35cbb5&p=3
11. ^ http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Conservatives+over/1408665/story.html