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CJ Rowens
Early Life:CJ Rowens is a Canadian NDP politician, journalist, and activist. Born in the Okanagan, South British Columbia, to working class parents, CJ Rowens attended elementary and high school in Northern British Columbia. He became interested in politics and social democracy during the 2011 election where he was fascinated with the ideas of Jack Layton, his interest furthered by his support for Elizabeth May and meeting his local MP he became interested in politics, He became interested in Agrarianism after studying the history of the CCF.

Early Career:
Previous to elected politics he was a journalist and activist in British Columbia, working with the National Farmers Union as a coordinator and spokesman for the union in the province. He also tried to fail to create a wheat pool in the city of Prince George, later described the endeavour as "not thought out as well as I thought it was out"Political Career:

He entered the political scene on September 15th, 2016 when he was appointed Senator from the North by Prime Minister TheLegitimist, His early time in Senate was fairly uneventful until he was appointed Minister of Environment within the sixth government.

Upon appointment to the sixth government of Canada as Minister of Environment and Climate Change CJ Rowens began work on the Clean Canada Act, a bill enabling mandatory recycling. This bill passed and was a big achievement of CJ Rowens’ early political career.

During the 6th election CJ ran in British Columbia, he did not do much campaigning, instead focusing on work within the NDP. He was elected with 7 votes.

 cjrowens served as Official Opposition critic for Agriculture and Fisheries, during the seventh government.

He was re-elected Member of Parliament from British Columbia, now serving his second term. He was sworn in as Minister of Agriculture & Fisheries in the eighth government on February 23rd, 2017



Press Career:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Rowens has written articles and interviews for the Times media group. He was a writer and CEO for Global News from early 2017 until May 28th, 2017. When he resigned from his positions. He now writes for Model Times and Echo

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Personal Life:

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;">CJ Rowens lives in the suburbs of a Northern BC community and is known to enjoy a glass of apple juice well sitting out by his wheat pool. He enjoys long walks out on the beach and yelling at libertarians. He is ghey