“There are a lot of people who can't find housing, who worry about the future, and that insecurity and precarity in their own lives is being exploited by some politicians who are using it to divide us by saying, 'hey it's the fault of new Canadians, it's the fault of refugees, it's the fault of Muslims.'”

Canadian politician and lawyer

Jagmeet Singh Jimmy Dhaliwal is a Canadian politician and lawyer. Born in Canada, he served as leader of the New Democratic Party from 2017 to 2025 and represented Burnaby South in the House of Commons from 2019 to 2025. He was first elected in 2011 to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Bramalea, Gore, Malton before moving into federal politics. Of Punjabi descent and a practising Sikh, he became the first member of a visible minority group to lead a major Canadian federal political party.