Rob Fleming (born November 11, 1971) is a Canadian politician who sat in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2005 provincial election, when he defeated one-term Liberal Party incumbent, Sheila Orr, until 2024.

Fleming sat on the Select Standing Committee on Legislative Initiatives which considered the petition seeking the repeal of the Harmonized Sales Tax.

Born in Windsor, Ontario, Fleming and his family moved to BC when he was three years old, settling on Greater Vancouver's North Shore.

[10] He supported the legalization of secondary suites,[11] the construction of the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre (but voted against the option to have it privately operated),[12] and amendments to bylaws to target aggressive panhandling.

[15] With the 2005 BC general election still a year away, Fleming declared his interest in seeking the NDP nomination in the Victoria-Hillside riding.

[16] Within a few months, former Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Steve Orcherton, who had won the riding in 1996 but lost in 2001, declared his candidacy for the NDP nomination.

The primary was billed as a contest between the hard line "old-school union man" Orcherton versus the "new wave" moderate Fleming which was seen as the symbolic struggle that was occurring throughout the party.

[18] In the May general election Fleming defeated the incumbent BC Liberal Sheila Orr and Green Party candidate and small business owner Steve Filipovic.

[24] He spoke out against deregulation that allowed diploma mills like Rutherford University and Kingston College which advertised to foreign students.

[30] While his riding was re-aligned to create Victoria-Swan Lake, Fleming easily won re-election facing no opposition for the NDP nomination[31] and receiving 61% of the votes in the May 2009 general election.

In the August 2009 Throne Speech the BC government committed to striking a task force on the topic of species-at-risk, but with no action since then, Fleming introduced his own Species at Risk Protection Act[39] in May 2010, based on similar legislation in Ontario.

[40][41] The Minister of Environment Barry Penner responded in June by striking a ten member species-at-risk task force consisting of academics and representatives of industry and non-profit organizations, who were told to make recommendations to directly cabinet.

During the BC NDP leadership election to replace Carole James, Fleming supported Mike Farnworth,[45] though Adrian Dix eventually won.

Fleming was critical of party leader Adrian Dix's positive-only campaigning during the election, partly blamed for the upset loss, saying that it allowed their opponents to define who they were and then attack that without response.

In July 2017, Premier John Horgan appointed Fleming Minister of Education in the Executive Council of British Columbia.

[64] In the October 2020 snap election called by Premier John Horgan, Fleming handily won re-election with more than 59% of the vote.

[67] In the new cabinet announced by Premier David Eby on December 7, 2022, Fleming retained the post of Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure.