She attended the University of British Columbia (BA, 1983; MA 1988) where she studied Political Science.
[5][6] Goldsmith-Jones completed her executive MBA at Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business and ran a consulting firm from 2012 to 2015.
Some of these included a call for an end to open-penned salmon farming, and a transition to closed containment instead.
[8][9] In 2014, Goldsmith-Jones announced her intention to challenge incumbent West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country MP John Weston in the 2015 federal election.
[17] As of May 2019, Goldsmith-Jones announced her retirement from federal politics, opting not to run for re-election in 2019.