32 Facts About Karina Gould

Karina Gould has served as member of Parliament for the riding of Burlington in the House of Commons since October 19,2015.

Karina Gould is the youngest woman to serve as a Cabinet minister in Canadian history and the first woman to have a child while serving as a federal minister.

Karina Gould went on maternity leave in January 2024 and was temporarily replaced as House Leader by Steven MacKinnon; she returned to the position in July 2024.

On January 18,2025, Karina Gould announced her campaign for the Liberal leadership.

Karina Gould was the youngest candidate, and was the only candidate still serving as a cabinet minister before resigning on January 24,2025.

Karina Gould was born on June 28,1987, and grew up in Burlington, Ontario, in a family with three brothers.

Karina Gould's mother is German and met her father while on a kibbutz in Israel.

In 2010, Karina Gould took a job with the Organization of American States in Washington, DC, working as a consultant in the Migration and Development Program.

Karina Gould is cited as contributing to the 2011 report, International Migration in the Americas: First Report of the Continuous Reporting System on International Migration in the Americas.

Karina Gould subsequently completed a master's degree in international relations at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

Karina Gould took a job working as a Trade and Investment Specialist for the Mexican Trade Commission "ProMexico" in Toronto.

Karina Gould held this position for less than a year before announcing her candidacy in the 2015 election at the age of twenty-eight.

Karina Gould was named the parliamentary secretary to the minister of international development and La Francophonie on December 2,2015.

Karina Gould became the President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.

Karina Gould has been credited as being instrumental in both passing and defending Bill C-76 or Elections Modernization Act, which made significant amendments to the Canadian Elections Act, including numerous accommodations for voter accessibility, restrictions on third-party interference on election campaigns, and a prohibition on spending by foreign entities during elections.

Karina Gould became the Minister for International Development, a key position in Trudeau's foreign policy.

Karina Gould had a "good and frank conversation" with him via electronic means the week before the 73rd World Health Assembly.

Karina Gould assisted in leading Canada's global efforts in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2021, Karina Gould was appointed as co-chair of the COVAX Advance Market Commitment Engagement Group to ensure safe and equitable access to vaccines for all 92 COVAX AMC-eligible economies.

Karina Gould was shuffled to the families, children and social development portfolio on October 26,2021.

Karina Gould was responsible for working with Indigenous partners to ensure that Indigenous children have access to a culturally appropriate Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care system.

In May 2022, followings leaks of the American Supreme Court's draft opinion of Dobbs v Jackson, Gould said American women could access abortions in Canada before Roe v Wade was overturned.

Karina Gould expressed concern for Canadian women who accessed abortion in the United States because of lack of access in Canada.

Karina Gould was appointed Leader of the Government in the House of Commons in July 2023.

Amid the Yaroslav Hunka scandal, Karina Gould deleted a photo from social media of her encounter with Hunka, asked for the Speaker's resignation, and proposed the incident be stricken from official records.

In November 2023, Karina Gould accused the Leader of the Official Opposition, Pierre Poilievre, of "American-style, right-wing politics" after he voted against a free-trade agreement with Ukraine because it included a provision that both sides would "promote carbon pricing".

Karina Gould announced her candidacy in the 2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, to succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Karina Gould resigned as Government House Leader to run in the race and was replaced on January 24,2025, by Steven MacKinnon, who had stood in for her during her maternity leave in 2024.

Karina Gould said she would introduce a universal basic income program if she won the leadership election and became Canada's next prime minister.

Karina Gould acknowledged her government mishandled the affordability crisis and had not responded well to the issues that mattered the most to Canadians.

Karina Gould stated she would keep consumer carbon pricing but would stop the April 2025 increase if elected, adding she got into politics to stop climate change.

Karina Gould gave birth to her first child, a son, on March 8,2018; this made her the first sitting federal Cabinet minister to give birth while in office and the first Cabinet minister to take maternity leave.