the 41st Parliament as part of the Election Amendment Act, 2019. 41st Parliament For the 2017 general election Fleming was challenged by digital media management consultant Stacey Piercey for the BC Liberal Party, Vancouver medical researcher Chris Maxwell for the Green Party, and David Costigane for the Vancouver Island Party. Fleming was again re-elected with his party forming the Official Opposition, but this time in a BC Liberal minority government. However, in the first session of the 41st Parliament the BC Liberal government lost a confidence vote and the second session began with the BC NDP forming a minority government. In July 2017, Premier John Horgan appointed Fleming Minister of Education in the Executive Council of British Columbia. In that role he oversaw the suspension of in-class learning in the province's schools during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020; that August he announced the re-opening of schools on September 10, 2020 for the new school year. 42nd Parliament In the October 2020 snap election called by Premier John Horgan, Fleming handily won re-election with more than 59% of the vote. Following a cabinet shuffle on November 26, 2020, he was reassigned to the position of the Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, replacing Claire Trevena, the incumbent minister who declined to seek re-election. He was in turn replaced by Jennifer Whiteside as Minister of Education. In the new cabinet announced by Premier David Eby on December 7, 2022, Fleming retained the post of Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure. Electoral history References External links Victoria-Swan Lake MLA - Rob Fleming's blog BC New Democratic Party - Rob Fleming Legislative Assembly of British Columbia - Rob Fleming 1971 births British Columbia New Democratic Party MLAs Education ministers of British Columbia Living people Members of the Executive Council of British Columbia Politicians from Windsor, Ontario University of Victoria alumni Victoria, British Columbia city councillors 21st-century Canadian politicians Camosun College alumni