Charles Lewis Parker is a Canadian former educator and politician who represented the constituency of Pictou West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1998 to 1999, and from 2003 to 2013.
Parker worked as a public school teacher as well as owning and operating a garden centre/nursery and was a realtor.
In 1998 Parker successfully ran for the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party nomination in the riding of Pictou West.
[5] While a member of the official opposition, Parker served as the critic for Natural Resources.
[6] Parker was re-elected in the 2009 provincial election which saw the Nova Scotia NDP win a majority of seats.