A hardworking advocate for Oak Bay-Gordon Head.

Murray Rankin lives in Oak Bay with his spouse, Linda Hannah, the past Regional Vice President of the Nature Conservancy of Canada. They met at a founding board meeting of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee. They have two adult sons, Ben and Mark.

Murray practices law in Victoria, as associate counsel to Arvay Finlay, and works primarily in the public law field, including environmental and aboriginal law. He holds law degrees from the University of Toronto and Harvard Law School.

He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Victoria and served from 2012 until 2019. In this role, he was appointed Justice critic, Health critic and also served as House Leader. He championed climate action and environmental protection, accessible healthcare and child care, and respectful reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. He was voted by MPs of all parties as a top-three finalist for Hardest Working Parliamentarian. When he left federal politics, the Prime Minster appointed him the first Chair of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency.

In his previous career as a UVic professor of law, he taught environmental law and helped build groups such as West Coast Environmental Law Association and the BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre. More recently, he served as community co-chair of the Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria, a student-run legal clinic doing public interest work in environmental law.

Murray will work hard to rebuild an economy that works better for more people.