{"id":605296,"date":"2026-04-15T08:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605296\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:45:13","slug":"2-b-c-cabinet-ministers-barefoot-pregnant-in-legislature-where-we-belong-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605296\/","title":{"rendered":"2 B.C. cabinet ministers \u2018barefoot, pregnant, in Legislature where we belong\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              2 B.C. cabinet ministers \u2018barefoot, pregnant, in Legislature where we belong\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 4:27 pm Tuesday, April 14, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Surrey-Newton MLA Jessie Sunner announced her pregnancy on social media this week, saying she\u2019s due to give birth late-summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith full hearts, we\u2019re incredibly grateful and excited to be expecting and to step into this long-awaited next chapter,\u201d Sunner posted on Instagram with an ultrasound photo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remain fully committed to serving as MLA for Surrey-Newton and Minister of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills with focus, dedication, and care,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrong plans are in place to ensure the ongoing work of my ministry and constituency office during that time, which will continue supporting our community every day with the help of my incredible team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fellow cabinet minister Bowinn Ma (Infrastructure) is also expecting. \u201cBarefoot, pregnant, and in the @BCLegislature where we belong!!\u201d Ma posted on X with a photo of her and Sunner smiling and waving. \u201cAnother historic first for BC: Not one, but TWO Cabinet Ministers simultaneously expecting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sunner was <a href=\"https:\/\/surreynowleader.com\/2024\/10\/20\/bc-election-2024-will-ndp-first-timer-sunner-hold-surrey-newton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first elected in 2024<\/a> to help form an NDP government. Before that she worked as a human rights lawyer and trade unionist for the Hospital Employees\u2019 Union. \u201cI went to law school in Calgary and I\u2019ve been a lawyer since 2018,\u201d the Queen Elizabeth Secondary grad said in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Now-Leader has reached out to Sunner for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 B.C. cabinet ministers \u2018barefoot, pregnant, in Legislature where we belong\u2019 Published 4:27 pm Tuesday, April 14, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-605296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}