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Jagmeet Singh Jimmy Dhaliwal MP (/ dʒ ə ɡ ˈ m iː t s ɪ ŋ / jug-MEET SING; [3] born January 2, 1979) [4] [5] is a Canadian politician who 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. [6]
Jagmeet Singh. On October 1, 2017, Jagmeet Singh, the first person of a visible minority group to lead a major Canadian federal political party on a permanent basis, won the leadership vote to head the NDP on the first ballot. [33] In the 2019 federal election, the NDP won only 24 seats in its worst result since 2004, shedding 15 seats. [34]
Jagmeet Singh: Burnaby South: Leader Intergovernmental Affairs Charlie Angus: Timmins-James Bay: Natural Resources (Jobs and Just Transition) Crown–Indigenous Relations (Child Welfare) Deputy Critic Ethics Deputy Critic: Niki Ashton: Churchill—Keewatinook Aski: National Revenue (Tax Fairness and Inequality) Official Languages Indigenous ...
Promising to continue governing and pushing through social programs, Trudeau dismissed talk of early elections after the left-leaning New Democratic Party's leader Jagmeet Singh said he was ...
The 2017 New Democratic Party leadership election was won by Jagmeet Singh.The election was triggered by Tom Mulcair having lost a vote on leadership review at the party's federal convention held in Edmonton, Alberta, on April 10, 2016, which resulted in a majority of delegates voting in favor of holding a new leadership election. [2]
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On August 8, 2018, Singh announced he would be running in a by-election to replace Kennedy Stewart as the Member of Parliament for Burnaby South. Stewart had resigned in order to make an ultimately successful bid for Mayor of Vancouver. [40] Singh relocated to Burnaby for the election [41] and won on February 25, 2019, with 38.9 per cent of the ...
Freeland’s resignation had laid bare a sharp policy split at the apex of the government over public spending, while the threat by Jagmeet Singh, leader of the New Democratic Party, to propose a ...