Wilson grew up on a dairy farm in Intervale, New Brunswick and attended schools in Petitcodiac.

After two years in Alberta, she moved back to New Brunswick, settling in Riverview, where she bought her own business in 1984.

She defeated Wally Stiles, a former cabinet minister who crossed the floor from the Progressive Conservatives to the Liberals in 2007, to take back the seat for her party.

[3] On September 30, 2024, Wilson released a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation statement on her campaign page in which she compared residential schools to the parental rights movement, specifically making a comparison to the original version of Policy 713.

Her statement received criticism from opposition parties, with several indigenous peoples also calling for her withdrawal as a candidate for the party,[3][4] including by Pabineau First Nation Chief Terry Richardson as well as by the six Wolastoqey Nation chiefs, who released a statement reading: "That she would try to draw this dog-whistle comparison on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation should make every New Brunswicker ashamed that she was recently a minister for this province in the Higgs government.