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Jody Wilson-Raybould

The Honourable
Jody Wilson-Raybould
QC PC MP
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Minister of Justice
Attorney General of Canada
Assumed office
November 4, 2015
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Preceded by Peter MacKay
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Vancouver Granville
Assumed office
October 19, 2015
Preceded by Constituency established
Personal details
Born (1971-03-23) March 23, 1971 (age 45)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Political party Liberal
Spouse(s) Tim Raybould
Alma mater University of Victoria
University of British Columbia

Jody Wilson-Raybould QC PC MP (born March 23, 1971) is a Kwakwaka’wakw Canadian politician and the Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Vancouver Granville. She was sworn in as Minister of Justice of Canada on November 4, 2015; the first Indigenous person to be named to that post. Before entering Canadian federal politics, she was a provincial Crown prosecutor, B.C. Treaty Commissioner and Regional Chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations.

Wilson-Raybould is a descendant of the Musgamagw Tsawataineuk and Laich-Kwil-Tach peoples, which are part of the Kwakwaka’wakw, also known as the Kwak’wala speaking peoples. She is a member of the We Wai Kai Nation. Wilson-Raybould carries the Kwak’wala name Puglaas, which means “woman born to noble people.”

Wilson-Raybould is the daughter of Bill Wilson, a First Nations politician and graduate of University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, and Sandra Wilson, a teacher. On Canadian national television in 1983, Wilson-Rayboud's father informed then-Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau that his two daughters hoped to become lawyers and then Prime Minister some day. Born at Vancouver General Hospital, she was raised in Vancouver, British Columbia and later Comox, British Columbia graduating from École Highland Secondary School.


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