How Indigenous MP Wade Grant plans to face divisive issues – The Narwhal

June 6, 2025

The new Liberal MP thinks he has what it takes to bring people together as he faces climate change, housing, Indigenous rights challenges and threats from the south

When Wade Grant was eight years old, he went to visit his mom at work. She was one of the first woman chiefs of Musqueam Nation and Grant found her in the band office having a meeting. When he opened the door, he saw her speaking with the mayor of Vancouver at the time, Gordon Campbell, who later became premier of British Columbia.

“In my mind I was like, oh my God, it’s the first person I’ve ever seen on television, and my mom was talking to him,” he says over the phone from his home in Musqueam territory in Vancouver near the mouth of the Fraser River. That was the moment he first wanted to enter public service.

To witness his mom “break a glass ceiling” in her role as chief and see her meeting with “the most powerful person in Vancouver — it really got my political blood flowing at a young age,” he says. In April, he was elected member of parliament for Vancouver Quadra — another first for a member of the Musqueam Nation.

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