19 Facts About Gurmant Grewal

Gurmant Singh Grewal was born on December 21,1957 and is an Indo-Canadian politician and former Conservative Member of Parliament.

Gurmant Grewal was born to a Jat Sikh family on December 21,1957 in Barundi, Punjab, India.

Gurmant Grewal wanted to help the suffering people and victims of the bloody civil war with medicine, food and clothes and intended to organise a charity to help in consultation with the office of the ambassador of Liberia.

The Gurmant Grewal brothers had earlier written a letter advising the President of Liberia to launch a Green Revolution to grow more food that would help eliminate hunger, malnutrition and poverty.

The article construed that Gurmant Grewal was an advisor to the military dictator, despite the Liberian ambassador having issued a letter clarifying the issue.

Gurmant Grewal has denied any such connections to the former government of Liberia.

Gurmant Grewal appealed to the international community to help Liberia and its people.

Gurmant Grewal had introduced a Bill C-284 to allow a bond to be posted to secure a visitor's visa, his bill passed the vote in the House and was referred to the Immigration Committee in March 2005.

In that testimony, Gurmant Grewal had stated that he regularly asked those seeking his help in getting visitor visas for their relatives, if they would be willing to post bonds guaranteeing their return.

Gurmant Grewal contends that immigration bonds, as they have been practiced in Australia and New Zealand, could work as a way to prevent spurious refugee claims and illegal immigration; and assist law-abiding sponsors to secure visa for their loved ones to visit Canada without hassle.

In mid-May 2005, at the time the Liberal government risked losing a confidence vote on its budget, the Liberals initiated negotiations with Gurmant Grewal asking him to vote with the Liberals and join the Liberal Party of Canada.

Gurmant Grewal had released excerpts of nine minutes of a recording of conversations with Murphy and Dosanjh, in which Murphy suggests that he abstain from the coming confidence vote.

On January 25,2006, Shapiro released a heavily edited report from the draft reports and stated, "While it is not clear whether Mr Gurmant Grewal genuinely sought an inducement to change his vote or whether he just acted the part in an attempt to entrap Mr Dosanjh, his actions were, in either case, extremely inappropriate".

The report said that Gurmant Grewal's behaviour violated the spirit of the MPs' Code of Conduct.

The Liberals claimed that it was Gurmant Grewal who approached them seeking patronage appointments for himself and his wife in exchange for their votes.

Gurmant Grewal did not run for re-election in 2006, saying he did not want the controversies surrounding his behaviour to be a distraction during the campaign.

In 2018, Gurmant Grewal announced his support for ex-Conservative MP Maxime Bernier's new party, the People's Party of Canada.

In 2012, Gurmant Grewal was awarded Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science and Diplomacy Honoris Causa degree by the Caucasus University in Georgia.

Gurmant Grewal was awarded the 'World Sikh Award' in 2012 at London, UK and he was listed 27th most influential Sikh in the world.