Jody Wilson-Raybould at home in the new riding of Vancouver Granville.
Jody Wilson-Raybould
is Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw and is the Liberal Party of Canada’s candidate for the new
riding of Vancouver Granville.
Background and
Experience
- Jody has a background in leadership and advocacy, most
recently being the two-term Regional Chief of the Assembly of First Nations
elected by 203 First Nations Chiefs in British Columbia. First elected in 2009,
she was re-elected by 80% of the vote in 2012.
- In her role as BC Regional Chief, she held several
portfolios including: Governance and Nation building, Chiefs Committee on
Claims (reserve and specific claims) and chaired the Comprehensive Claims joint
working group.
- She was elected as Commissioner of the BC Treaty Commission in 2004 by the First
Nations Summit (BC), which she served for nearly seven years, over a year as
acting Chief Commissioner.
- Jody was elected a council for the We Wai Kai Nation in 2009;
she was appointed her nation’s representative to the First Nations Lands
Advisory Board and was a member of the Finance Committee. She worked to develop
the nation’s financial administration law. She was Chair of the First Nations
Finance Authority (FNFA) from 2013-2015.
- She practiced law as Crown prosecutor in Vancouver
criminal courthouse in the downtown eastside from 2000-2003.
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Riding History
- Vancouver Granville is a new riding located in central
metro Vancouver created as part of the 2012 federal electoral boundary
redistribution process.
- The riding was created from parts of Vancouver Centre,
Vancouver Quadra, Vancouver Kingsway and Vancouver South formerly represented
by two Liberals, one NDP and one Conservative MP respectively.
- Vancouver Granville has a fairly small Aboriginal
population at 1.5% (2011), however it is a diverse riding with a sizeable Asian
community.
- Erinn Broshko, Conservative
- Mira Oreck, NDP
- Michael Barkusky, Green
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