Vancouver Magazine

Jody Wilson-Raybould

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(#8, 2016) MINISTER OF JUSTICE & ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

Law and Order When Justin Trudeau announced his inaugural cabinet, he handed Jody Wilson-Raybould—a former Crown prosecutor and regional chief of the BC Assembly of First Nations—the fraught justice ministry. In the past year, the rookie Vancouver–Granville MP has had to stickhandl­e two of the Liberal government’s most challengin­g campaign promises: setting up anational inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and drawing up legislatio­n for the legalizati­on of marijuana. The MMIW inquiry is mandated to produce a ƒnal report by the end of 2018. The new pot law, meanwhile, is set to come into e£ect next July—though o¤cials across Canada have expressed concern about the feds’ hands-o£ approach.

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