I doubt it has anything to do with the ethnicity of MLAs _now_ because the change happened _twenty years ago_. That said, British Columbia has had a sizeable,

I doubt it has anything to do with the ethnicity of MLAs _now_ because the change happened _twenty years ago_. That said, British Columbia has had a sizeable, and growing, Indian population since roughly around the time of joining Canada. The Komagata Maru incident[0] was the precursor to an influx of immigration from the punjab. After English, the three most spoken languages in BC are Cantonese, Mandarin, and Punjabi[1]. The ethnic chinese population arrived in basically two waves: as early settlers during the western expansion, they were pivotal in the creation of the railways and as foundational members of small towns[2]. And then the transfer of HK to CN brought an influx. 0: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/komagata-maru https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/komagata-m... 1: https://www.welcomebc.ca/Choose-B-C/Explore-British-Columbia/Language-in-B-C https://www.welcomebc.ca/Choose-B-C/Explore-British-Columbia... 2: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/chinese-canadians https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/chinese-ca...