Mobina S. B. Jaffer KC (Bengali: মবিনা জাফরী) (born August 20, 1949) is a former Canadian Senator representing British Columbia.
Jaffer was the first Muslim to be appointed to the upper house as well as being the first senator who was born in Africa, and the first of South Asian descent.
Her father had been a member of the Parliament of Uganda and fled in June 1972, joining the rest of the family in England, after a senior military officer warned him that he was to be killed.
[citation needed] She was appointed to the Canadian Senate on June 13, 2001, on the advice of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.
Law Society was investigating allegations of overbilling by Jaffer and her son for allegedly charging a Catholic missionary order, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, fees of $6.7 million for work they did between 2000 and 2004 defending the Oblates against abuse claims made by former residents of the Canadian Indian residential school system.