Leah Gazan was born on April 8,1972 and is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Winnipeg Centre in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election.
10 Facts About Leah Gazan
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Leah Gazan was born in Thompson, Manitoba to Albert and Marjorie Gazan.
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Leah Gazan's father, Albert Leah Gazan, is a Holocaust survivor from the Netherlands, born in The Hague, South Holland in 1938.
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Leah Gazan served as president for the Social Planning council of Winnipeg.
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Leah Gazan participated in Idle No More, and pushed for Bill C-262 to be passed by the House of Commons.
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Leah Gazan represented the province of Manitoba for the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues advocating for acknowledgement of injustice perpetuated against Indigenous Canadian adoptive children.
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In 2019, Leah Gazan won the NDP nomination for Winnipeg Centre over former Manitoba Attorney General Andrew Swan.
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Leah Gazan subsequently defeated incumbent Liberal Robert-Falcon Ouellette, another Indigenous candidate, for the seat of Winnipeg Centre, retaking the district for the NDP.
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Leah Gazan introduced one private member's bill, Bill C-323, An Act respecting a Climate Emergency Action Framework, which sought to require the Minister of the Environment to develop and implement a framework on achieving the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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Leah Gazan presented a motion to the House of Commons to declare the deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls a Canada-wide emergency, which passed unanimously.