Above: Harinder Kaur Malhi with her father, Gurbax Singh, who served several terms as Member of Parliament in Canada's Federal Parliament -- also as a Liberal..
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Sikh-Canadians Shine in Ontario Election
NEWS REPORT
Canada’s Province of Ontario went to the polls yesterday -- Thursday, June 12, 2014 -- and the voters have brought in, after a long hiatus, a majority government.
The win by Kathleen Wynne and her Liberal Party is notable in a number of ways, not the least being that the government side of the parliament benches will boast four Sikh-Canadian Members of Parliament out of 59 -- that is, almost 7% of the governing party.
In addition to the four, a fifth Sikh-Canadian was re-elected for the New Democratic Party (“NDP”), bringing the total number of Sikh-Canadian MPPs in Ontario new Parliament to five out of a total of 107 -- which is almost 5% of the province’s lawmakers.
The following are the five MPPs:
LIBERAL
1 Amrit Kaur Mangat, Mississauga - Brampton South
2 Harinder Kaur Malhi, Brampton - Springdale
3 Harinder Singh Takhar, Mississauga - Erindale
4 Vic Singh Dhillon, Brampton West
NDP
5 Jagmeet Singh, Bramalea - Gore - Malton
Equally notable in this election is the fact that Kathleen Wynne is the first woman to be elected as Premier in Ontario.
And, to the credit of Ontario's electorate, neither her gender nor the fact that she is a lesbian and openly campaigned with her partner by her side, played any part in her electibility.
June 13, 2014
Conversation about this article
1: Harinder Singh (Punjab), June 13, 2014, 10:00 PM.
Sikh-Canadians are the pride of the worldwide Sikh community.
2: Mohinder Singh (Canada), June 19, 2014, 3:52 PM.
Sikh voters of Ontario have always stood by their Sikh political figures, but have thease politicians ever stood by their communities? Case in point: when Sikhs were fighting for the helmet case in Ontario, Harinder Singh Takhar was Transport Minster. What did he do to help? Nothing.