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First Sikh elected to the British Columbia Legislature Ujjal Dosanjh ਉੱਜਲ ਦੇਵ ਸਿੰਘ ਦੁਸਾਂਝ (born 1947) Vancouver-Kensington: October 17, 1991: May 15, 2001: NDP [199] Indian-Canadian (Punjabi) Federal MP (2004–2011) First Visible Minority Premier of British Columbia Harry Lali (born 1956) Yale-Lillooet ...
Amarjeet Sohi — Current Mayor of Edmonton, former Member of Parliament (MP), former Minister of Natural Resources; Anju Dhillon — MP of Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle and first person of South Asian descent to be elected from the province of Quebec. Baljit Singh Gosal — Former MP of Bramalea—Gore—Malton, and former Minister of Sport
Sikhism is the fourth-largest religious group in Canada, with nearly 800,000 adherents, or 2.1% of Canada's population, as of 2021. [1] The largest Sikh populations in Canada are found in Ontario, followed by British Columbia and Alberta. [1]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said a year ago that Canada had credible evidence agents of the Indian government were involved in the murder of Canadian Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in ...
Tensions between Canada and India have reached new heights with dueling diplomatic expulsions and an allegation of Indian government involvement in the killing of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil.
Singh was born on January 2, 1979 [19] [20] in the city of Scarborough, Ontario, now a district of Toronto, to Indian immigrants, Harmeet Kaur and Jagtaran Dhaliwal. [21] His parents are both from the Malwa region of the Indian state of Punjab, with his mother being from Ghudani Khurd in Ludhiana district, while his father is from Thikriwala in Barnala district. [22]
Canada has a Sikh population of more than 770,000, or about 2% of its total population. ... Nijjar was organizing an unofficial referendum in India for an independent Sikh state at the time of ...
Tim Uppal is a Sikh born in New Westminster to Indian immigrant parents. [10] Alice Wong MP for Richmond: 18 May 2011: 4 November 2015: 4 years, 157 days Minister for Seniors (2011–2015) Alice Wong is a Chinese Canadian who immigrated to Canada in 1980. Alice Wong is the first Chinese Canadian woman to serve in cabinet. [11]