Sukh Dhaliwal has been a strong voice for Newton-North
Delta for close to a decade. As a successful businessman,
active member of the Surrey Chamber of Commerce and dedicated
volunteer, he has played a vital role in transforming Surrey
into the one of the most dynamic and rapidly developing
communities in Canada.
After completing his engineering studies at the University
of Calgary and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology,
Mr. Dhaliwal moved to Surrey where he started up his own
business, a land surveying enterprise. Still thriving with
a staff of 15, it was the first of many successful local
ventures.
As a member of the Surrey Chamber of Commerce, he has been
an active and eloquent spokesman for local small businesses.
He has helped foster the opportunities that will drive the
local economy in the coming years.
As a volunteer, Mr. Dhaliwal is a member of the Surrey
Memorial Hospital Foundation’s Emergency Campaign Cabinet,
which helps to raise funds to assist in the construction
of the hospitals expanded emergency ward. Mr. Dhaliwal is
also on the board for SEEDS (Self Employment and Entrepreneur
Development Society) and is a member of the City of Surrey
Parks and Community Services committee.
As a lifelong Liberal, Mr. Dhaliwal has distinguished himself
as a strong advocate on issues such as fiscal management,
health care, youth violence, and the Martin government’s
New Deal for Communities agenda. He is also actively involved
in issues surrounding multiculturalism and immigration.
Sukh Dhaliwal
Sukh Dhaliwal, MP (born November 1, 1960 in Punjab, India)
is a businessman
and politician in British Columbia, Canada. He is currently
the Liberal Member of
Parliament for Newton—North Delta, elected in the
2006 federal election. A Sikh,
he emigrated from India in 1984 and became a Canadian citizen
three years
later. As a businessman, he ran a successful land surveying
company and
played an important role in the municipal politics of Surrey
where he is said to
have dominated the Surrey Electors Team membership list
by signing up over
2,600 new party members, whether they were aware of what
they were doing is
unknown. This represented over half the total number of
members, and was
mainly generated from the large local Indian-Canadian community.
However, in
the November 1999 municipal elections Dhaliwal lost his
own bid for a seat on
city council.
On July 9, 2008, Sukh Dhaliwal wrote a letter of recommendation
to a U.S.
District Court judge on official House of Commons stationery
in support of
convicted international drug trafficker Ranjit Singh Cheema.
On October 14, 2008 Sukh Dhaliwal was re-elected to Parliament
with over 2000
votes.
He was the federal Liberal candidate for the Newton-North
Delta riding in 2004,
but lost to Conservative Gurmant Grewal by just over 500
votes. After a turbulent
term in office, Grewal decided to not seek re-election,
and in 2006 Dhaliwal faced
Conservative newcomer Phil Eidsvik. The NDP was also strong
in the riding, and
2004 candidate Nancy Clegg, who finished less than a thousand
votes behind
Dhaliwal, also ran again. Dhaliwal succeeded in winning
the seat by 1300 votes.
First elected in January 2006, Sukh Dhaliwal is the Liberal
Critic for
Competiveness and the New Economy. By profession, Sukh is
a Professional
Engineer and British Columbia Land Surveyor.
Sukh Dhaliwal has been a strong voice for Newton-North
Delta for close to a
decade. As a successful businessman, active member of the
Surrey Board of
Trade and dedicated volunteer, he has played a vital role
in transforming Surrey
and North Delta into the one of the most dynamic and rapidly
developing
communities in Canada.
After completing his engineering studies at the University
of Calgary, Sukh
moved to Surrey where he started up his own business, a
land surveying
enterprise. Still thriving with a staff of fifteen, it was
the first of many successful
local ventures. As a member of the Surrey Board of Trade,
he has been an active
and eloquent spokesman for local small businesses. He has
helped foster the
opportunities that will drive the local economy in the coming
years.
As a volunteer, Sukh Dhaliwal participated in the Surrey
Memorial Hospital
Foundation’s Emergency Centre Campaign which helps
to raise funds to assist in
the construction of the hospitals expanded emergency ward.
Sukh was also on
the board for SEEDS (Self Employment and Entrepreneur Development
Society)
and a member of the City of Surrey Parks and Community Services
committee.
As a lifelong Liberal, Sukh has distinguished himself as
a strong advocate on
issues such as fiscal management, health care, youth violence,
and the Martin
government’s New Deal for Communities agenda. He is
also actively involved in
issues surrounding multiculturalism and immigration. He
and his wife Roni have
raised their three children in the community, the eldest,
now in university and
youngest in pre-school.
By Mandeep Dhaliwal
