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Top Sikh Leaders In Canada You Must Know About
The Canadian Parliament has a total of 338 MPs out of which 18 are Sikh MPs. Canada has over 8 lakh sikhs and Punjabi is the third most spoken language of the country. Sikh voters influece poll results in around 20 parliamentary constituencies of Canada. Here are some of the elected Canadian Sikh MPs:
Randeep Sarai
Randeep was born in Vancouver and raised in South Burnaby. He graduated from UBC with a Bachelor of Arts and went on to complete his Bachelor of Laws Born at Queen`s University in Kingston, Ontario. He is an MP from Surrey Centre.
Harjit S. Sajjan
The Honourable Harjit Sajjan was first elected as Member of Parliament for Vancouver South in 2015. Minister Sajjan immigrated to Canada from India with his family when he was five years old. He grew up in South Vancouver and benefitted from everything its diverse and culturally rich community has to offer.
Jasraj Singh Hallan
Jasraj Singh Hallan was elected as the Member of Parliament for Calgary Forest Lawn in October 2019. Jasraj grew up in NE Calgary, graduated from Lester Pearson High School and has an accounting diploma from SAIT.
Tim Uppal
Tim Uppal is the Member of Parliament for Edmonton Mill Woods and the Deputy Leader for Canada’s Official Opposition. He previously served as the Minister of State for Democratic Reform and the Minister of State for Multiculturalism during Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. He was born in British Columbia and raised in Edmonton. He comes from a hardworking and proud Canadian family who emigrated from Punjab.
Jagmeet Singh
Jagmeet Singh Jimmy Dhaliwal has served as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2017. Singh has sat as the member of Parliament (MP) for Burnaby South since 2019. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 2011, representing Bramalea—Gore—Malton until his entry into federal politics.
Maninder Sidhu
Maninder Sidhu is your Member of Parliament for Brampton East. After graduating from the University of Waterloo, Maninder built a successful customs brokerage business.
Iqwinder Gaheer
Gaheer was born in Punjab, India to Maninder Singh, a construction worker and plumber, and Baljit Kaur, a home-maker. Gaheer's father had immigrated to Canada in 1992. He and the rest of his family joined his father in Canada in 1999. Iqwinder Gaheer was elected to represent the riding of Mississauga—Malton in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2021 Canadian federal election.