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Jagmeet: Singh and Ndp

jagmeet: History would thus be made if Jagmeet Singh leads the NDP to forming government after the vote in 2019, according to CBC. Ontario MPP Jagmeet Singh launches bid for federal NDP leadership Ontario politician Jagmeet Singh to shake up federal NDP leadership race Of course, if Singh becomes leader of the NDP this fall he will have already toppled a far more significant barrier he would become the first non-white leader of a major federal party in this country's history. For instance, not since 1873 has a man with a beard led his party to victory in a federal election. As much as Canada might be celebrated for its diversity, pluralism and successful integration of new citizens and cultures, the national parties have only been led by white men or women with only a few of the latter . Singh's campaign could be viewed as test of both his own readiness and the readiness of Canadians to get behind a leader who looks like him. Sikhs, he notes, have more than a hundred years of history in Canada. Or the prospect of a non-white leader could simply be viewed as long overdue, in the words of Pardeep Singh Nagra, a Sikh activist who fought for inclusion as an amateur boxer in the 1990s. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.