Meet Harjit Sajjan, Canada’s new defence minister, an Indo-Canadian Sikh
- 7 years ago
Harjit Sajjan, an Indo-Canadian Sikh, was named Canada’s new defence minister on Wednesday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s 30-member cabinet was sworn-in at a ceremony in Ottawa. Sajjan, who is in his mid-forties, was born in India and moved to Canada with his family when he was five-years-old. As the new defence minister, Sajjan will work with Trudeau on reshaping Canada’s combat mission fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.