Omnipotent Father, we give You praise for Hon. Doug Donaldson, MLA for Stikine. Use his experience, training and skills and grant him new insights in his role as Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development. May his team continually provide wise counsel as described in Proverbs 15:22 (NASB): “Without consultation, plans are frustrated, but with many counselors they succeed.” Keep Mr. Donaldson and his family safe and may they enjoy quality time together! In the name of Jesus our Lord, Amen……
Doug Donaldson was elected as MLA for Stikine in 2009 and re-elected in 2013 and 2017. He is the Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development. Prior to becoming an MLA, Doug worked for Storytellers’ Foundation, a non-profit organization focusing on community economic development in the region, He has worked as a biologist with a forestry consulting business, as a reporter and columnist with a weekly newspaper, communications director with the Gitxsan Treaty Office, coordinator of the cultural tourism program at Northwest Community College, and instructor with the Gitxsan Wet’suwet’en Education Society. Doug’s many years in the northwest included living in Smithers and Telkwa before settling in Hazelton where he was a four-term municipal councillor. He has travelled extensively throughout the Stikine constituency which overlays the traditional territories of seven First Nations.