[2][4] He met his wife Helen at UBC, and the couple opened a dental clinic in Pitt Meadows in 1980; they have three sons together.
[2][4] He was elected as a Pitt Meadows municipal councillor in 2005, and won re-election in 2008 by finishing in first place.
[5] After announcing his intention to run for mayor of Pitt Meadows in April 2011, he stepped aside that August and instead sought re-election as councillor.
[6] He was nominated as the British Columbia Liberal Party candidate for Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows in February 2013,[7] and defeated New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Elizabeth Rosenau by 620 votes in the 2013 provincial election to become the riding's MLA.
[2][8][9] He stayed on as Pitt Meadows councillor until February 2014 without receiving a salary or expense reimbursement from the city.