Jagmeet Singh

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Jagmeet Singh Jimmy Dhaliwal (born January 2, 1979) is a Canadian politician and lawyer who served as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) from 2017 to 2025 and as the member of Parliament (MP) for Burnaby South from 2019 to 2025. He was first elected in 2011, representing Bramalea—Gore—Malton in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario until his entry into federal politics. A Canadian-born practising Sikh of Punjabi descent, he is the first member of a visible minority group elected to lead a major Canadian federal political party. After graduating from Osgoode Hall Law School, Singh became a criminal defence lawyer, starting a law firm with his brother Gurratan. In 2011 his political career began when he contested the 2011 federal election in the federal riding of Bramalea—Gore—Malton which resulted in a narrow victory for Conservative opponent Bal Gosal; he became a member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in the overlapping provincial riding later that year. In 2015, he became deputy...

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