Jagmeet Singh


Jagmeet Singh Dhaliwal is a politician in Ontario, Canada and the Deputy Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party. He has represented the riding of BramaleaGoreMalton in Legislative Assembly of Ontario since his election in 2011. He is the first turbanwearing Sikh to sit as an Member of Provincial Parliament, as well as the first to hold a deputy leader position in Canada. Before entering politics, Singh was a criminal defence lawyer.

Singh was born in Scarborough, Toronto as the oldest of the four children of Punjabi immigrants his father Jagtaran Singh Dhaliwal, a psychiatrist and his mother, Harmeet Kaur Dhaliwal, a teacher. Singh briefly lived in Punjab, India before returning to Canada when his father enrolled in a medical school in Newfoundland, where the family stayed for five years. Singhs family then settled in Windsor, Ontario where he grew up. Singh attended a private high school in Detroit, Detroit Country Day School, in Beverly Hills, Michigan, graduating in 1997.

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