Jody Wilson-Raybould

Jody WilsonRaybould PC OBC KC born March 23 1971 also known by her initials JWR and by her Kwakwala name Puglaas is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the member of Parliament MP for the British Columbia BC riding of Vancouver Granville from 2015 to 2021 She was initially elected as a member of the Liberal Party serving as justice minister and attorney general from 2015 to 2019 and briefly as veterans minister and associate national defence minister in 2019 until she was expelled from caucus amid the SNCLavalin affair She continued to sit in Parliament as an Independent and was reelected in 2019 but did not run in 2021 Before entering federal politics she was a BC provincial Crown prosecutor a treaty commissioner and regional chief of the BC Assembly of First Nations