Pamela Goldsmith-Jones

Pamela Goldsmith-Jones MP
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade
Incumbent
Assumed office January 30, 2017
Minister	Francois-Philippe Champagne
Preceded by	David Lametti
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office December 2, 2015 – January 27, 2017
Minister	Stephane Dion
Preceded by	David Anderson
Succeeded by	Matt DeCourcey
Member of the Canadian Parliament for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country
Incumbent
Assumed office October 19, 2015
Preceded by	John Weston
Mayor of West Vancouver
In office 2005–2011
Preceded by	Ron Wood
Succeeded by	Michael Smith
Personal details
Born	1961
Political party	Liberal Party of Canada
Alma mater	University of British Columbia Simon Fraser University

Pamela Goldsmith-Jones (born 1961) is a Canadian Liberal politician, and the current Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country. On December 2, 2015, she was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. She was previously the mayor of West Vancouver, British Columbia, from 2005 to 2011.

Goldsmith-Jones attended École Pauline Johnson Elementary School and West Vancouver Secondary School. She attended the University of British Columbia (BA, 1983; MA 1988) where she studied Political Science. She was elected over incumbent Ron Wood on November 19, 2005, and re-elected in 2008. She retired from municipal politics in December, 2011, declining to run for a third term.

After taking a couple of years off from politics to complete her executive MBA at Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business and run her consulting firm, Goldsmith-Jones announced her intention to challenge incumbent MP John Weston in the 2015 federal election. Goldsmith-Jones won the Liberal Party of Canada nomination in June 2014. She unseated Weston the following October, winning the election.

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