Gary Chan Hak-kan is currently the youngest member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong

Legislative Council of Hong Kong

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. He represents the New Territories East constituency. He is also a member of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) political party.

Chan graduated from the Department of Government and Public Administration at Chinese University of Hong Kong

Chinese University of Hong Kong

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, and studied in Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

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, Syracuse University

Syracuse University

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. He was a member of Sha Tin District

Sha Tin District

Sha Tin District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. One of the 9 districts located in the New Territories, it covers the areas of Sha Tin, Tai Wai, Ma On Shan, Fo Tan, Siu Lek Yuen and Ma Liu Shui . The district has the highest population...

 Council from 1999 to 2003. He was appointed as special assistant to the Chief Executive of Hong Kong

Chief Executive of Hong Kong

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, Sir Donald Tsang, from 2006 to 2008, with the salary of HK$77,000.

In 2008, Chan followed Lau Kong Wah

Lau Kong Wah

Lau Kong Wah, also known as Ray Lau, JP is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong representing the New Territories East constituency...

 to run for a seat in the Hong Kong legislative election, 2008

Hong Kong legislative election, 2008

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 after resigning from special assistant to Chief Executive. Under the party-list proportional representation

Party-list proportional representation

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 voting system, Lau's team got a total of about 100,000 votes in New Territories East constituency, brought Chan into the Council. Both Lau and Chan won the seats. Chan was admonished by Leung Kwok-hung

Leung Kwok-hung

Leung Kwok-hung , also known as Long Hair , is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong , a founding member of the League of Social Democrats and a democratic political activist.-Biography:Leung is a self-proclaimed Trotskyist and a member of April Fifth Action, a radical socialist...

 for his poor English - he is quoted as saying during his acceptance speech that the party would "try our breast not to just criticize the government policy".

Urine inspection

In a pre-election debate, Chan proposed to impose mandatory drug tests on teenagers returning from Mainland China, so as to fight against abusing narcotics by them. The plan was criticised as abusing human rights.

Libel

In another pre-election debate, Chan questioned Leung Kwok-hung

Leung Kwok-hung

Leung Kwok-hung , also known as Long Hair , is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong , a founding member of the League of Social Democrats and a democratic political activist.-Biography:Leung is a self-proclaimed Trotskyist and a member of April Fifth Action, a radical socialist...

 for his "one-minute attendance" in each LegCo meeting. Leung denied the accusation and considered that it is a libel on him. Then replied with the fact of over 95% attendance and asked for apology.

Inadequate English proficiency for a Councillor

Shortly after the result of the Legislative Council was announced and Chan's victory into the Council was confirmed, Chan was interviewed by the press on live TV, where he was asked by one of the English-speaking reporter that:
Chan replied:

His mistake regarding the word "breast" for "best", in particularly was criticised in the media and the general public in Hong Kong for lack of English language

English language

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 proficiency as a Legislative Councilor.
The clip from that interview was uploaded on youtube.com and subtitled to enhanced those stutters and the phrase "try our breast".