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Ujjal Dosanjh

  • New Delhi, Jan. 19, 2005: The Canadian Health Minister Mr. Ujjal Dosanjh calls on the Union Minister for Health, India
  • CHANDIGARH, JANUARY 13, 2005: NRI Dosanjh , health Minster of Canada is at India Trip said, Canada can help India in infrastructure, power generation, agriculture and food processing. Canadian health minister TIMES NEWS NETWORK acknowledged that India was fast emerging as an economy to reckon with and that his adopted country was eager to accelerate trade with it. Addressing a meet-the press programme at Chandigarh Press Club here on Wednesday, Dosanjh said.........more

  • Ujjal Dosanjh, former premier of British Columbia , was named health minister Tuesday, dated July 20, 2004

Biography:

He was born in 1947 in Dosanjh Kalan village of Jalandhar District in Punjab and grew up hearing stories from his grandfather about Kamagatu Maru, the gurdwara reform movement and about Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru.— emigrating to England at the age of 17 — and came to Canada four years later. Dosanjh has a B.A. in political science from Simon Fraser University, and a law degree from UBC. Along the way, he was a millworker and the assistant editor of a Punjabi newspaper. He also taught English as a Second Language to new Canadians at Vancouver Community College. He established his own law practice in Vancouver in 1979. He has a long track record as a human rights activist — setting up the first farmworkers' legal information service in 1977. He's also been involved in South Vancouver Neighbourhood House, MOSAIC, the B.C. Multicultural Society and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association. After he spoke out against Sikh extremism and violence in 1985, he was attacked and beaten with an iron bar in the parking lot outside his law office.His injuries were serious — requiring 80 stitches. After running and losing in the 1979 and 1983 elections.       

* Elected the NDP MLA for Vancouver-Kensington in 1991.
* He was elected Attorney General of B.C. and Minister Responsible for    Multiculturalism,    Human Rights, and Immigration. He is married with    three sons
* Ujjal Dosanjh, an Indo-Canadian, became the premier of British    Columbia on 21st February, 2000.
* In March 2002, and after a much needed rest and reading break, he returned to the active practice of law at Dosanjh Woolley. Mr. Dosanjh continues to maintain an interest in criminal, civil, family and personal injury law. With his broad knowledge of law and government, Mr. Dosanjh is able to advise clients on a vast array of difficult legal matters.

*Ujjal Dosanjh, former premier of British Columbia , was named health minister Tuesday, dated July 20, 2004

 

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