Career
Best known as a former chief commissioner of the British Columbia Human Rights Commission, Sims was also a candidate for the New Democratic Party in the electoral district of Portuguese Moody—Westwood—Portuguese Coquitlam in the 2006 federal election. Born in Hong Kong, Sims first came to Canada as an exchange student in 1970. She became a Canadian citizen in 1978.
A longtime community activist in Toronto, Sims was associated with a significant number of government and non-profit human rights agencies and commissions, including the Ontario Human Rights Commission"s board of inquiry, the provincial pay equity tribunal, the Campaign for Equal Families and the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
In 1997, Sims was named chief commissioner of the British Columbia Human Rights Commission. In 2001, she was controversially fired from the position by Premier Gordon Campbell a year before the end of her appointed term.