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Currently emergency workers and victims of crime who suspect they have been exposed to serious illness cannot determine their exposure until many months later, often past the window of preventative treatments. Because of this doubt, suspected exposed people usually ingest a concoction of prophylactic drugs, and they, with their families, carry the mental burden of uncertainty. This bill allows those individuals to ask the authorities to compel source individuals to get a blood test in a timely manner and, if a communicable disease is determined, to have the source individual's doctor communicate the results in confidence to the applicant's doctor.

— Norm Letnick May 31, 2011 [36]

The legislation only received first reading in the third session but Letnick brought it back in the fourth session as Bill M-204 in November 2011. Letnick's private members bill was picked up by government and passed unanimously as Bill 39 in May 2012, the first time in 6 years that a private member successfully introduced a Bill that became Law.

In September 2012 Letnick was appointed Minister of Agriculture for the province of British Columbia. [37]

Electoral history

Norm Letnick
MLA
NormLetnick.jpg
Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly
for Kelowna-Lake Country
Assumed office
May 12, 2009
2020 British Columbia general election : Kelowna-Lake Country
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Liberal Norm Letnick 14,67955.73−4.41$42,026.78
New Democratic Justin Kulik7,12127.04+6.38$977.00
Green John Janmaat3,83314.55−4.65$4,490.00
Libertarian Kyle Geronazzo5151.96–$0.00
Independent Silverado Socrates1900.72–$0.00
Total valid votes26,338100.00–
Total rejected ballots  
Turnout  
Registered voters
Source: Elections BC [38] [39]
2017 British Columbia general election : Kelowna-Lake Country
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Liberal Norm Letnick 15,28759.76+2.98$55,200
New Democratic Erik Olesen5,34420.89−3.91$7,120
Green Alison Shaw4,95119.35+11.91$16,300
Total valid votes25,582100.00
Total rejected ballots1490.58
Turnout25,73154.21
Source: Elections BC [40] [41]
2013 British Columbia general election : Kelowna-Lake Country
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Norm Letnick 12,14956.78
New Democratic Mike Nuyens5,30624.80
Conservative Graeme James2,35110.99
Green Gary Adams1,5917.44
Total valid votes21,397100.00
Total rejected ballots880.41
Turnout21,48547.71
Source: Elections BC [42]
2009 British Columbia general election : Kelowna-Lake Country
PartyCandidateVotes%Expenditures
Liberal Norm Letnick 10,28152.11$119,561
New Democratic Matthew Reed5,25026.61$17,764
Conservative Mary-Ann Graham2,25311.42$21,044
Green Ryan Fugger1,3756.97$350
Independent Alan Clarke5712.89$8,830
Total valid votes19,730 100.00
Total rejected ballots89 0.45
Turnout19,819 47.25

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