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Jody Wilson-Raybould, also known by her initials\\xa0JWR\\xa0and by her\\xa0Kwak\\u2019wala\\xa0name\\xa0Puglaas,\\xa0is a\\xa0Canadian\\xa0politician and the Independent\\xa0Member of Parliament\\xa0for the\\xa0riding\\xa0of\\xa0Vancouver Granville. She served as\\xa0Minister of Justice and Attorney General in the cabinet of\\xa0Justin Trudeau\\xa0from 2015 until January 2019 and then as\\xa0Minister of Veterans Affairs of Canada\\xa0from January 14, 2019, until resigning on February 12, 2019. Before entering federal politics, she was a provincial Crown Prosecutor in Vancouver, a Treaty Commissioner and Regional Chief of the B.C.\\xa0Assembly of First Nations. Wilson-Raybould studied at the\\xa0University of Victoria\\xa0and later at the\\xa0University of British Columbia.\\xa0She lives with her husband Tim Raybould in Vancouver.\\xa0

We met in Ottawa the day after her book From Where I Stand, Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a Stronger Canada was launched and talked, among other things, about telling the truth in politics - the whole truth; about exactly what \'title\' means; about launching a book in the middle of an election; about keeping promises, Justin Trudeau and SNC Lavalin, Alberto Manguel, Conrad Black, the Royal Proclamation of 1763, Confederation, assimilation, the Charter of Rights, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, reconciliation, indigenous self government, community development, revenue sharing, spousal travel, and creating a more \'just society\'.\\xa0