Jody Wilson-Raybould
Jody Wilson-Raybould | |
|---|---|
| Puglaas | |
| In office January 14, 2019 – February 12, 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Seamus O'Regan |
| Succeeded by | Lawrence MacAulay |
| Minister of Justice Attorney General of Canada | |
| In office November 4, 2015 – January 14, 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Peter MacKay |
| Succeeded by | David Lametti |
| Member of Parliament for Vancouver Granville | |
| In office October 19, 2015 – September 20, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Riding established |
| Succeeded by | Taleeb Noormohamed |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jody Wilson March 23, 1971 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Party | Independent |
| Other political affiliations | Liberal (until April 2019) |
| Spouse |
Tim Raybould (m. 2008) |
| Relations | Bill Wilson (father) Bev Sellars (stepmother) Alfred Scow (uncle) |
| Education | |
Jody Wilson-Raybould PC OBC KC (born March 23, 1971), also known by her initials JWR and by her Kwak’wala name Puglaas, is an Indigenous Canadian lawyer, author, and former politician who was Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from 2015 to 2019. First elected in the 2015 election as the member of Parliament (MP) for Vancouver Granville with the Liberal Party, Wilson-Raybould was re-elected as an independent in the 2019 election. As Attorney General, Wilson-Raybould refused to offer a deffered prosecution agreement to SNC-Lavalin after being pressured to do so by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She briefly served as Minister of Veterans Affairs in 2019, before she resigned from Cabinet and was removed from the Liberal caucus amid the SNC-Lavalin affair.
Before entering federal politics, she was a provincial Crown attorney in British Columbia (BC), a treaty commissioner and regional chief of the BC Assembly of First Nations.