{"id":6519,"date":"2011-04-27T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6519"},"modified":"2011-05-03T11:29:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:29:24","slug":"ruby_parm_or_ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/27\/ruby_parm_or_ma\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby, Parm or Manjit? &#8212; updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Dhalla Gill Grewal.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/Dhalla%20Gill%20Grewal.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"231\" width=\"660\" \/>Canadians vote in a federal election on May 2 and one of the most interesting races is in Brampton-Springdale, just outside Toronto. One out of three people in Brampton is South Asian, the highest proportion among all municipalities in Canada, and residents are not asking whether a South Asian will represent them in Parliament &#8212; they are asking <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brampton%E2%80%94Springdale#Election_results\">which South Asian will represent them in Parliament<\/a>. Will it be Ruby, Parm or Manjit?<br \/><br \/>All three of the major party candidates are Punjabi (just as in the neighboring riding of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brampton--Gore--Malton--Springdale#Federal_election_results\">Bramalea-Gore-Malton<\/a>). Ruby Dhalla, the Liberal incumbent, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kyon%3F_Kis_Liye%3F\">former actress<\/a> and chiropractor, has held the seat since 2004. She and Nina Grewal, a Conservative from British Columbia, were the first Sikh women to serve in the Canadian House of Commons and have twice defended their seats.<br \/><br \/>Dhalla&#8217;s chief rival is Parm Gill, the Conservative candidate, whom she defeated by less than 800 votes in 2008, and whom she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/canadavotes2011\/story\/2011\/04\/26\/cv-election-gill-kenney.html\">accuses of inappropriate access to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.<\/a><br \/><br \/>The third major candidate is Manjit Grewal, nominee of the New Democratic Party (NDP). He doesn&#8217;t appear to have much of a chance, aside from the fact that he co-owns a taxi company and will have no trouble giving voters free rides to the polls.<br \/><br \/><!--more-->The remaining candidates are Mark Hoffberg, representing the Green \nParty, and Elizabeth Rowley, representing the Communist Party. They have\n no shot whatsoever, but at least with their names out there in the community, they might\n have a chance in the next election, especially if they brush up on \ntheir Punjabi.<br \/><br \/>UPDATE (May 3, 2011): Gill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/tory-parm-gill-defeats-ruby-dhalla\/article2007864\/\">easily won the seat<\/a>, with 23,554 votes, or 48.4 per cent, beating Dhalla (13,635 votes) and Grewal (9,439).<\/p>\n\n<div><br \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadians vote in a federal election on May 2 and one of the most interesting races is in Brampton-Springdale, just outside Toronto. One out of three people in Brampton is South Asian, the highest proportion among all municipalities in Canada, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/27\/ruby_parm_or_ma\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}