[1] Wilson began her political career as a school trustee, served on the Dufferin County Board of Education for eleven years (including three as chair).
[2] David Peterson's Liberals won a landslide majority in this election, and Wilson was appointed as a Minister without Portfolio responsible for Senior Citizen's Affairs on September 10, 1987.
[3] On August 2, 1989, she was appointed Minister responsible for Women's Issues, a post she held until her defeat in the September 1990 election.
Wilson lost her seat by 572 votes to David Tilson of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
[5] She attempted to regain the seat in the 1995 provincial election, but lost by almost 15,000 votes amid a Progressive Conservative majority government victory.