Andrew Wilkinson QC is an Australian-born Canadian politician. He is the leader of the British Columbia Liberal Party. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2013 provincial election and re-election in 2017. He served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General from June 12, 2017, until an NDP minority government was sworn in the following month. Wilkinson resigned as leader following the election.
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Andrew Wilkinson QC is an Australian-born Canadian politician. He is the leader of the British Columbia Liberal Party. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2013 provincial election and re-election in 2017. He served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General from June 12, 2017, until an NDP minority government was sworn in the following month. Wilkinson was born in Brisbane, Australia. He received his L. L. B. from Dalhousie University in 1987 and was called to the Canadian bar in 1988. Wilkinson served as the president of the BC Liberal Party from 1998 to 2001. In 2006, after leaving his post as a deputy minister in Gordon Campbell’s BC Liberal government, Wilkinson joined the Vancouver office of McCarthy Tétrault, a major national law firm. He remained active in Liberal politics in the intervening years, having served as riding president of former federal minister Stephen Owen and BC campaign co-chair to Michael Ignatieff’s leadership campaign in 2006. In December 2014, Wilkinson became responsible for the selloff of government land that had been earmarked as a site for a new hospital by premier Gordon Campbell.
On December 17, 2014, Premier Clark and Amrik Virk exchanged Virk and Wilkinson became the new Min. of Amrik and Min. Virk. Wilkinson resigned as leader following the election. On November 23, 2020, the BC Lib Caucus elected Shirley Bond as interim leader. He won the 2013 British Columbia general election with over 60% of the vote as his party formed a majority government. He easily won the Vancouver-Quilchena riding in the general election in 2013. He also served as deputy minister for Intergovernmental Relations in the Premier’s Office for two years from 2001 to 2003. The appointment was reported as an \”obscene patronage payoff,\” due to Wilkinson’s prior role as party president. In 2003, he was transferred to the position of deputy Minister for the Ministry of Small Business & Economic Development. He then returned to the private sector by becoming a partner in the Litigation Group of McCarthy téTrault.
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