Jonathan Wilkinson

Jonathan D. Wilkinson[1] PC MP (born June 11, 1965) is a Canadian politician who has served as Minister of Energy and Natural Resources since 2023.

[4][5] Wilkinson earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Saskatchewan and went on to be named the Prairies Rhodes Scholar in 1988, reading Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford.

[4] Wilkinson was an advisor to Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow and served in the provincial civil service from 1991 to 1995, when he joined Bain & Company's Toronto branch.

[4] Wilkinson defeated Conservative parliamentary secretary Andrew Saxton by a nearly 2-to-1 margin amid the Liberal wave that swept through Greater Vancouver in the 2015 federal election.

In response to the death of Mahsa Amini and the subsequent crackdown on protesters in Iran in 2022 and 2023, Wilkinson personally sponsored and called for the release of Dr. Hamid Ghare- Hassanlou and his wife Farzaneh Ghare- Hassanlou, Mohammed Rakhshani and rap artist Toomaj Salehi, all of whom were charged, imprisoned, or condemned to death by the Iranian Regime.