# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bev-oda
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:42:44.381Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bev-oda"
name: "Bev Oda"
slug: "bev-oda"
description: "Beverley Joan \"Bev\" Oda is a retired Canadian politician. She was a member of the House of Commons of Canada, as well as the first Japanese-Canadian MP and cabinet minister in Canadian history. She represented the riding of Durham for the Conservative Party of Canada. She was appointed Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women on February 6, 2006. She was appointed Minister for International Cooperation on August 14, 2007. On July 3, 2012, Oda announced she was resigning her seat in the House of Commons effective at the end of the month following public controversy about her spending habits; she was dropped from Cabinet the following day."
tagline: "Canadian broadcaster, politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bev_Oda_UNDP_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1944-07-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.44
  momentum:             0.29723991507431
  historical:           7.03492
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.bevoda.ca/"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E7%94%B0%E7%BE%8E%E6%B3%A2%E6%A2%A8"
    title: "小田美波梨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%DA%A4_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "بيڤ اودا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bev_Oda"
    title: "Bev Oda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bev_Oda"
    title: "Bev Oda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bev_Oda"
    title: "Bev Oda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%90%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%80"
    title: "ビバリー・オダ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bev_Oda"
    title: "Bev Oda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%88%DA%88%D8%A7"
    title: "بیو اوڈا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q399629"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump