 She retired from municipal politics in December 2011, declining to run for a third term.After completing her executive MBA at Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business and running her consulting firm from 2012–2015, Goldsmith-Jones announced her intention to challenge incumbent West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country MP John Weston in the 2015 federal election.Goldsmith-Jones won the Liberal Party of Canada nomination in June 2014.