Two Indo-Canadians join Ontario Cabinet

Toronto, June 19

Two more Indo-Canadian politicians have been appointed as ministers in a Cabinet reshuffle in Canada’s Ontario province, taking the representation of the community members in the Executive Council to three.

While Parm Gill, 47, took on the new portfolio of Citizenship and Multiculturalism, Nina Tangri was appointed Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Friday reshuffled his Cabinet, with former Finance Minister Rod Phillips, who resigned from his post following a Caribbean vacation during the Covid-19 pandemic, returning as the new minister of long-term care.

In the previous ministry, there was one Indo-Canadian — Prabhmeet Sarkariya, who was the associate minister of small business and red tape reduction. “Who would have thought a young boy who immigrated from India to Canada at a young age, raised by a single mother, would today be sworn in as Minister of Citizenship and Multiculturalism,” said Gill, born in Moga, Punjab. — PTI