Canadian politician born in 1979, leader of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2017. A Sikh-Canadian lawyer from Brampton, Ontario, Singh brought visible-minority leadership to a mainstream federal party and steered the NDP into a supply-and-confidence agreement with Trudeau's minority Liberal government (2022–2024), enabling major social policy expansions including dental care and pharmacare before withdrawing support in 2024.
Extended left-progressive coalition politics in Canada by anchoring NDP support for a Liberal minority government, securing concrete social-democratic policy wins in dental care and a pharmacare framework in exchange for confidence votes. Represents the mainstreaming of intersectional identity politics within Canadian social democracy.
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