Stephen Douglas Owen was a Canadian lawyer, executive, and politician who lived from September 8, 1948, to June 29, 2023. He represented the western portion of the City of Vancouver as a member of parliament for the Vancouver Quadra electoral district from 2000 to 2007.
He served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Paul Martin as Minister of Public Works and Government Services from 2003 to 2004 and as Minister of Western Economic Diversification and Minister of State for Sport from 2004 to 2006 as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada caucus. After leaving the legislature, he accepted a position as vice-president of external, legal, and community relations at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he remained until 2012.
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