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Wade Grant
Musqueam and Canadian politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Howard Wade Grant MP (Hunquminum: caləχʷəlenəxʷ;[1] Chinese: 志堅[1][2][3]) is a Musqueam and Canadian politician. A member of the Liberal Party, he has represented Vancouver Quadra in the House of Commons since the 2025 federal election, and previously served as a Musqueam Indian Band councillor from 2004 to 2014.
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Education
Grant studied political science at the University of British Columbia,[4] graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 2002.[5][6]
Political career
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Grant served as a Musqueam Indian Band councillor from 2004 to 2014,[5] and on the Vancouver Police Board from 2010 to 2014.[7][8] From 2014 to 2017, he served as a special advisor on aboriginal issues to Christy Clark, the premier of British Columbia.[5][9] He ran for Vancouver City Council in the 2018 municipal election and lost, coming in 29th place with 15,422 votes.[10][11]
Since 2019, he has served as an Intergovernmental Affairs Officer for the Musqueam Indian Band.[5] In June 2019, Grant was elected to the First Nations Health Council, and since 2021 he has served as its chair.[12][5] He has also served as chair of the New Relationship Trust, "an independent non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening First Nations in B.C. through capacity building."[10][13]
With incumbent Liberal Vancouver Quadra Member of Parliament (MP) Joyce Murray declining to seek re-election, Grant was nominated as the riding's Liberal candidate in March 2025.[14] During the 2025 federal election, Grant supported affordable housing and advocated for oil infrastructure projects to comply with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.[5] He was elected MP, receiving 63.1% of the vote.[15]
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Family
Grant's mother, Wendy Grant-John (Hunquminum: taχʷtəna:t), and his maternal grandfather, Willard Sparrow (Hunquminum: θəliχʷəltən), both served as chiefs of the Musqueam Indian Band.[1][8][16][17][18][19] His father is Howard Grant (洪文興),[3][20] an executive director with the First Nations Summit.[21] His paternal grandparents were Hong Tim Hing (洪添慶), a Chinese immigrant who came to Canada in 1920,[3] and Agnes Grant, a Musqueam woman.[22][23]
Current Musqueam chief Wayne Sparrow (Hunquminum: yəχʷyaχʷələq[24])[25] and elder Larry Grant (Hunquminum: sʔəyəɬəq)[26][27][28] are Grant's uncles.
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