MLA Maurine Karagianis Member for Esquilmalt - Royal Roads

Our Father, we do thank You for Maurine, Opposition Critic for Children and Family Development, and pray for your blessing on her daily. Maurine has represented the people of Esquimalt- Metchosin for the past decade, and continues to work diligently on their behalf. We pray Maurine will know and feel Your divine direction and guidance, and be given wise and creative ideas, insight and discernment to assist her with the anticipated changes she envisions for the betterment of the families in this area. May You grant her favour with her colleagues, good health, safety in travel and happy, quality time with her own family.

In the Name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.

Maurine Karagianis was elected MLA for Esquimalt-Metchosin on May 17, 2005, and re-elected to the reconfigured riding of Esquimalt-Royal Roads on May 12, 2009.

Maurine serves as opposition critic for Children, Family Development and Child Care.

She was elected to Esquimalt Council in 1996. Serving for three terms, Maurine helped create and chaired the CRD Arts Committee, and by working to save the Matson Gary Oak meadow in the Inner Harbour and daylighting the Gorge Creek helped enrich green space and renew bird habitat in Esquimalt.

A long-standing Director of the Veins of Life Watershed Society, Maurine has worked in support of environmental stewardship for the Gorge Waterway and watershed protection in the Capital Region.

She worked in the fashion industry for over 15 years, in retail, wholesale and import/export, and also spent more than a decade working in the communications industry for the tourism market and international motorcycle industry.

Maurine ran a consulting firm that worked with non-profit organizations and First Nations communities to create affordable housing. Her career has also included working for the provincial Ministry of Transportation and the Ministry of Social Services.

A proud mother and grandmother, Maurine lives with her partner in Esquimalt.