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16 Indo-Canadians Elected MPs In Trudeau’s Returned Minority Government
- September 25, 2021
All prominent Punjabi-Canadian faces were reelected—including Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan from Vancouver South, Minister Bardish Chaggar from Waterloo, minister Anita Anand from Oakvilla and Jagmeet Singh, who heads New Democratic Party, from Burnaby South seat.
OTTAWA - Sixteen of the 17 South Asian politicians who won on Monday and made it to the Canadian House of Commons are Punjabis.
But the number of Indo-Canadian candidates who were reelected is marginally down from 20 in 2019.
All prominent Punjabi-Canadian faces were reelected—including Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan from Vancouver South, Minister Bardish Chaggar from Waterloo, minister Anita Anand from Oakvilla and Jagmeet Singh, who heads New Democratic Party, from Burnaby South seat.
Liberal Member of Parliament Chanderkanth Arya, who has his roots in Karnataka, was elected from Napean in Ontario yet again—the lone non-Punjabi Indian-origin MP.
Many of these seats were from Ontario, Canada’s largest province and a hub for Indian immigrants—Punjab-origin MPs won four of five seats in Brampton: Ruby Sahota from Brampton North, Maninder Sidhu from Brampton East, Sonia Sidhu from Brampton South, and Kamal Khera from Brampton West.
Five of those who won are women: Anju Dhillon, a lawyer and a Liberal Party member from Dorval-Lachine-La-Salle who became the first Indian-Canadian to win a seat twice in the French-speaking province of Quebec. She joins fellow Liberal women winners Ruby Sahota, Sonia Sidhu, Anita Anand and Bardish Chaggar.
Other prominent winners are Jasraj Singh, George Chahal, Tim Uppal, Sukh Dhaliwal, and Randeep Singh Sarai.
Nineteen of 20 Indo-Canadian MPs who’d been elected in 2019 were of Punjabi-origin.