Preceded by John Weston Name Pamela Goldsmith-Jones | Succeeded by Michael Smith Preceded by Ron Wood | |
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Alma mater University of British ColumbiaSimon Fraser University Previous office Mayor of West Vancouver (2005–2011) Education Simon Fraser University (2012–2015), University of British Columbia | ||
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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.
