- Office
- MP for Langley (2004 to 2015) and Langley—Aldergrove (2015 to 2019)
- Party
- Conservative
- Before Ottawa
- Abbotsford city councillor, 1990 to 2004
- Langley connection
- Lived in Langley with his family (Wikipedia); represented Langley for 15 years
- Born / died
- May 7, 1950 to June 20, 2019
- How it ended
- Announced his retirement in January 2019; died in office that June
- Last checked
- October 23, 2026
Mark Warawa’s last big speech in the House of Commons was about how people die. In May 2019, a few weeks after learning he had cancer, the Langley—Aldergrove MP used his farewell address to argue that more Canadians should be offered palliative care. CBC quoted him saying, “The system’s broken and needs to be fixed.” He died a month later, still Langley’s MP.
Before Langley’s seat
According to Wikipedia, Warawa worked in business and as a loss prevention officer, and sat on Abbotsford city council from 1990 to 2004. He and his wife, Diane, lived in Langley and raised five children there, the same article says.
Fifteen years as MP
The federal riding called simply Langley was created for the 2004 election, combining the City, the Township and three reserves. Warawa won it that year and held it through the 2006, 2008 and 2011 elections. When the riding was split in 2015, he won the new Langley—Aldergrove seat.
From the record:
- Parliamentary secretary. He was named parliamentary secretary to the Minister of the Environment on February 10, 2006, and also sat on the House committee on justice, human rights and public safety, according to Wikipedia.
- Motion 408. In 2012 and 2013 he pursued a private member’s motion asking the House to condemn sex-selective abortion. The National Post reported in March 2013 that a House subcommittee ruled it non-votable and that Warawa appealed the ruling, with support from some fellow Conservative MPs.
- Long service. On the day he died, CBC described him as British Columbia’s longest-running Conservative MP.
How his time in office ended
In January 2019 Warawa announced he would not run again in that October’s election, saying he planned to become a chaplain with a focus on pastoral care for seniors, CBC reported. In April he announced doctors had found cancer in his lungs, colon and lymph nodes. He gave his farewell speech in May and died in hospice on June 20, 2019, aged 69. His office said his final message to constituents was that it had been “an incredible honour to have served my community since being elected federally in 2004.”
Members on every side paid tribute in the House that day. No by-election was held before the October 2019 election, when Tako Van Popta won Langley—Aldergrove.
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