Following Glen Clark’s resignation, Dan Miller, of Prince Rupert, served as the NDP’s fourth BC premier until a party convention could choose a successor to Clark. In 2000, Ujjal Dosanjh, MLA for Vancouver-Kensington, won the leadership and was sworn in as the NDP’s fifth Premier. In yet another first for the NDP, Dosanjh was the first South Asian Premier in Canada. But he was unable to overcome the Fast Ferries controversy, and in the 2001 the NDP was decimated.
A new millennium
