Mark Marissen

Mark Allan Marissen (born 1966 in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian political strategist and principal of Burrard Strategy Inc.,[1] a communications company he founded in 1998. Marissen is also a senior advisor to McMillan Vantage Policy Group, affiliated with McMillan LLP, a Canadian business law firm.[2]

Mark Marissen, c. 2013

Marissen recently announced that he is a candidate for Mayor of Vancouver.[3] He will be seeking the nomination for Progress Vancouver, formerly known as YES Vancouver.[4]

In July 2018, Marissen helped to create YES Vancouver, a new "YIMBY" municipal political party devoted to solving Vancouver's housing crisis by focusing on zoning reform. YES Vancouver ran candidates for council, school board and park board. Hector Bremner, a councillor for the Non Partisan Association of Vancouver, ran for mayor under the YES banner, but only took 5.73% of the vote.[5]

Marissen was also a director of Pacific Future Energy Corporation, working with former Appeal Court Judge Wally Oppal,[6] former International Trade Minister Stockwell Day[7] and former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Shawn Atleo.[8] Former National Chief Ovide Mercredi[9] and Dave Coles, former President of the Canadian Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union (CEP), were also involved in the project.[10]

Marissen is the co-founder of Kanata Clean Energy.[11]

Marissen graduated from Carleton University with a bachelor's degree in political science, and also attended Simon Fraser University. Marissen resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, and has one child (Hamish Marissen-Clark) by his ex-wife, the 35th British Columbia Premier Christy Clark.[12] Marissen's older brother is professor of music Michael Marissen.[13]

Politics

Following Dion's resignation, Marissen supported Michael Ignatieff for Liberal Party leader.[14] Ignatieff was confirmed as Leader at a national convention in Vancouver in late April 2009. In the most recent federal Liberal leadership contest, Marissen was campaign manager for George Takach for Liberal Party leader.[15] After Takach withdrew from the contest, Marissen joined him in supporting Justin Trudeau.

Marissen was the co-chair for the election of Christy Clark.[16]

More recently, Marissen served as strategist for Michael Lee's campaign for the leadership of the BC Liberal Party,[17] where Lee was 30 points short from being on the final ballot.[18]

References
  1. Burrard Strategy
  2. "Mark Marissen". McMillan Vantage Policy Group.
  3. "Longtime political strategist Mark Marissen plans to run for mayor of Vancouver - BC | Globalnews.ca". Global News.
  4. ""YES Vancouver" becomes "Progress Vancouver" ahead of next election | News".
  5. "Vancouver Election Results: Stewart wins nail-biter to become Vancouver's next mayor". Vancouver Sun. 2018-10-21. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
  6. "Skeptics question proposed 'world's greenest bitumen refinery' in B.C." vancouversun.
  7. Pacific Future Energy Archived 2014-09-26 at the Wayback Machine/
  8. Jang, Brent (10 December 2014). "Pacific Future Energy recruits former First Nations chiefs to help launch project". The Globe and Mail.
  9. Jang, Brent (10 December 2014). "Pacific Future Energy recruits former First Nations chiefs to help launch project". The Globe and Mail.
  10. "Dave Coles joins Advisory Board of Pacific Future Energy". www.miningandenergy.ca.
  11. "About | kanataclean.com". August 2, 2021.
  12. "John Horgan sworn-in as B.C. premier, unveils new cabinet | Globalnews.ca". globalnews.ca.
  13. "mmariss1". www.swarthmore.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  14. "Canada.Com". ocanada. Archived from the original on November 5, 2012.
  15. ""Trudeau attracting buzz, but Murray, Garneau, LeBlanc, Cauchon and others still exploring options to run for Grit leadership, Hill Times"".
  16. "Liberals pull off surprise victory in B.C. election". ca.news.yahoo.com.
  17. Mason, Gary (November 23, 2017). "Dianne Watts is losing her advantage in the BC Liberal leadership race" – via www.theglobeandmail.com.
  18. "B.C. Liberal leadership round-by-round voting results". Victoria Times Colonist.
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