Margaret Commodore

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Margaret Commodore

| image =

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| assembly2 = Yukon Legislative

| constituency_AM2 = Whitehorse Centre
{{small|(Whitehorse North Centre; 1982–1992)}}

| term_start2 = June 7, 1982

| term_end2 = September 30, 1996

| predecessor2 = Geoff Lattin

| successor2 = Todd Hardy

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1932}}{{cite web|title=We Welcome The Children Back Home: The Burden of Sorrow and Survival of the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada|url=https://redi.med.ubc.ca/we-welcome-the-children-back-home-the-burden-of-sorrow-and-survival-of-the-indian-residential-school-experience-in-canada/|publisher=University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine|access-date=March 2, 2024}}

| birth_place = Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada{{cite book|title=The Canadian Parliamentary Guide|author=Normandin, P.G.|date=1996|publisher=P. G. Normandin|isbn=9781896413143|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EKZDAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=2015-08-04}}

| residence =

| party = New Democratic

| occupation = Politician

}}

Margaret Muriel Commodore (or Margaret Joe; born 1932) is a Canadian politician. She represented the electoral district of Whitehorse North Centre in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 1992, and Whitehorse Centre from 1992 to 1996. She was a member of the Yukon New Democratic Party.

Under the Tony Penikett governments, she was Minister of Health and Human Resources from 1986 to 1989 and the first Aboriginal Minister of Justice in Canada from 1989 to 1992. She was also the first-ever First Nations woman to ever be named to a cabinet in Canada in 1985.{{cite web |title=Yukon |url=https://www.equalvoice.ca/yukon |website=Equal Voice Yukon |access-date=18 May 2021 |language=en |quote=Margaret Commodore: First-ever First Nation Woman named to Yukon Cabinet}}{{cite web |title=Timeline |url=http://www.yukongenderequality.com/timeline |website=Indicators of Yukon Gender Equality |access-date=18 May 2021 |quote=FIRST-EVER FIRST NATION WOMAN NAMED TO CABINET NDP MLA Margaret Commodore (formerly Margaret Joe) of B.C.'s Sto:lo Nation named Minister of Health and Human Resources.}}

Commodore is a member of the Sto:lo Nation. In 2013 she testified regarding her abuse at the hands of the residential school system at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.{{cite web |last1=Pemberton |first1=Kim |title=Former MLA shares tale of residential school abuse (with video) |url=https://vancouversun.com/News/Metro/former-mla-shares-tale-of-residential-school-abuse?r |website=vancouversun |access-date=18 May 2021 |language=en-CA}}