Nelly Shin

Nelly Shin (born 1972) is a Canadian politician who was elected as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada for Port Moody—Coquitlam as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. Shin is the first Korean-Canadian to be elected to the House of Commons. She is the second Korean-Canadian woman, after Senator Yonah Martin, to serve in the Parliament of Canada. Background Shin was born in South Korea in 1972, and is the eldest of three siblings. She immigrated with her parents to Canada in 1977, settling in East York, Ontario. Her parents ran a floral business. She earned two degrees from the University of Toronto: a Bachelor of Music in 1996 and a Bachelor of Education in 2000. She left teaching in 2008 to pursue a career in music and ministry. In December 2017, she launched a campaign to attain the Conservative nomination in the Ontario riding of Richmond Hill, but later withdrew to allow a former Conservative MP to gain the nomination. After having earlier lived in Victoria for three years, she moved permanently to British Columbia in 2018 and secured the party’s nomination in Port Moody—Coquitlam in June 2019.