Sonia Sidhu
- Born
- January 3, 1968 — India
- Family
- Married to Gurjit, twin daughters and a son
- Career
- Over 18 years in the healthcare field as a diabetes educator and research coordinator
- Political Experience
- Elected as a Member of Parliament for Brampton South in 2015. Sat on the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Health, and also was appointed to sit as a member of the Special Committee on Pay Equity. Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women as well as the Chair and the Liberal caucus champion for the All-Party Diabetes Caucus. General-Secretary of the Canada-India Parliamentary Friendship Group and an executive member of both the Canada-Poland and Canada-Portugal Parliamentary Friendship Groups. Member of the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association, the Canada-U.S. Inter-Parliamentary Group, and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
- Notable
- Private member bill An Act to establish a national framework for diabetes (Bill C-237) was adopted.
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I'll pass it to Dr. Martin. Thank you.
Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to all of the witnesses for being here today. My question is for Celiac Canada and Melissa Secord. Melissa Secord, thank you for your advocacy for the 400,000 Canadians living with celiac disease. I chair the all-party Celiac Caucus, and we heard at the breakfast we did a few months ago on the Hill that celiac disease requires a strict, lifelong, gluten-free
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