Wallace Oppal (QC) is the former attorney general of British Columbia and minister responsible for multiculturalism. A lawyer and former judge, Oppal was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in 2005 as a BC Liberal MLA for Vancouver-Fraserview and subsequently became the second Indo-Canadian attorney general of British Columbia. He is the author of the report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into Policing in British Columbia (aka the Oppal Inquiry). A graduate of the University of British Columbia law school, Oppal operated his own law practice before going to the bench. He was appointed to the County Court of Vancouver in 1981 and to the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1985. In 2003, he was appointed to the British Columbia Court of Appeal where he served until he resigned to seek election to the provincial legislature. He also served as director of both Family Services of Greater Vancouver and the BC Coalition for Safer Communities, among other positions.