Five Indo-Canadians inducted as ministers in British Columbia province

The new British Columbian cabinet contains 23 ministers, 4 ministers of state and 14 parliamentary secretaries.

Toronto,UPDATED: Dec 9, 2022 23:23 IST

5 Indo-Canadians inducted as ministers in British Columbia province. (Image: gov.bc.ca)

By Press Trust of India: Five Indo-Canadians have been inducted as ministers throughout a latest cabinet reshuffle by Canada’s British Columbia province premier David Eby.

They embrace Niki Sharma as Attorney General, Rachna Singh because the Minister of Education and Child Care, Ravi Kahlon takes cost as Minister for Housing and Government House Leader, Jagrup Brar because the Minister of State for Trade and Harry Bains because the Labour Minister.

The new cabinet contains 23 ministers, 4 ministers of state and 14 parliamentary secretaries, in response to a press launch issued by the British Columbia authorities on Wednesday.

Sharma, 43, assumed cost at a time when the Eby authorities faces ongoing issues round violent and repeat offenders, in response to ctvnews.ca.

“I got a call from (the premier) saying, ‘We’d like you to be the Attorney General of B.C.’ and I don’t remember anything after that,” ctvnews.ca quoted Sharma as saying.

As a lawyer, Sharma represented residential faculty survivors.

She is the primary South Asian girl to be appointed the Attorney General, the report mentioned.

Bains, who was reappointed because the Minister of Labour, mentioned he desires to make “British Columbia workplaces the safest in the country”.

“I am so grateful to be sworn in once again as Minister of Labour this morning. We have accomplished big changes in BC such as bringing in paid sick leave, raising the minimum wage, and repatriating our healthcare workers. We still have so much more to do,” Bains tweeted on Thursday.

“British Columbia is a wonderful place to live, but people are looking for action on the issues facing them and their families,” Eby mentioned.

“If the pandemic taught us something, it is that we won’t resolve these issues alone. We want to resolve them collectively. My crew of decided colleagues will use wealth and number of expertise to proceed the great work we’ve began and go additional to ship outcomes individuals can see and really feel of their communities,” Eby added.

The new cabinet members are tasked with serving to common British Columbians with the price of residing, strengthening the health-care system, tackling the housing disaster so individuals can discover reasonably priced, attainable properties, making communities safer and advancing reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples, the press launch mentioned.

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Dec 9, 2022