Geoff Plant

Geoff Plant
Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for Richmond-Steveston
In office May 28, 1996 – May 17, 2005
Preceded by	Allan Warnke
Succeeded by	John Yap
Attorney General of British Columbia
In office June 5, 2001 – May 17, 2005
Premier	Gordon Campbell
Preceded by	Graeme Bowbrick
Succeeded by	Wally Oppal
Minister Responsible for Treaty Negotiations of British Columbia
In office June 5, 2001 – May 17, 2005
Premier	Gordon Campbell
Personal details
Political party	Liberal

Geoff Plant, QC (born c. 1956) is a British Columbia lawyer and retired politician known for his interest in citizen's legal and electoral rights and aboriginal rights.

As of 2010, he is chair of the board for Providence Health Care which operates St. Paul's Hospital. In May 2015 appointment as Emily Carr University of Art + Design's Chancellor.

Raised in Vancouver, Plant received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1978 and law degrees from the University of Southampton in England in 1980, Dalhousie University in Halifax in 1981, and from the University of Cambridge in 1989. For a year, Plant was a clerk in the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa prior to being called to the bar in 1982.

Plant was counsel in a number of leading aboriginal rights and title cases, including the 1997 landmark case of Delgamuukw v. British Columbia where the Supreme Court of Canada made its most definitive statement on the nature of Aboriginal title in Canada.

Plant has lived in Richmond since 1984 and represented the riding of Richmond-Steveston in the British Columbia Legislature for the BC Liberal Party. He was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly in the 1996 election with 56 per cent of the vote. He served as Opposition Justice Critic and was Opposition Leader's Gordon Campbell's roommate in Victoria.

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