27 Facts About Navdeep Bains

Navdeep Bains was born in Toronto, Ontario on June 16,1977, to Indian parents, in a Jat Sikh Famiky of Harminder and Balwinder Navdeep Bains.

Navdeep Bains then went on to finish his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Windsor.

Navdeep Bains received his Certified Management Accountant designation, subsequently becoming a Chartered Professional Accountant in 2014.

Navdeep Bains worked as a financial processing analyst at Nike Canada from 2000 to 2001.

Navdeep Bains worked for the Ford Motor Company as a revenue and costing analyst from 2000 until 2004.

At that time, Navdeep Bains was 26 years old and the youngest Liberal MP in Parliament.

Navdeep Bains was elected chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Development of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade in April 2005, and held it until October 7,2005, when he became parliamentary secretary to the prime minister, which at the time was Paul Martin.

In October 2005, Navdeep Bains became a member of the Red Ribbon Task Force that released a 2006 report on revitalizing the party organization.

Navdeep Bains was member of the Liberal Caucus Committees for Planning and Priorities, Canada and the World and Economic Prosperity.

In March 2009, Navdeep Bains was appointed Chair of Platform Development and oversaw the creation of the party's next electoral platform.

In January 2011, Navdeep Bains claimed that the Bloc Quebecois was using "the politics of fear" and argued against their attempt to ban the ceremonial Sikh kirpan from the parliamentary buildings after an incident in which the Quebec National Assembly denied entry to a group of four kirpan-wearing Sikhs.

Navdeep Bains was a director of the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation from September 2012 to September 2015.

Navdeep Bains served on the Ontario Provincial Board of the Heart and Stroke Foundation, including a stint as Vice Chair starting December 2014.

Navdeep Bains is on the board of advisors for the Pearson Centre for Progressive Policy.

Navdeep Bains entered academia and became an adjunct lecturer in a Master of Public Service program at the University of Waterloo and a distinguished visiting professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, starting in 2013 for a one-year term.

Navdeep Bains's teaching contract at Ryerson was extended, and he was still a professor at the time of his re-election in 2015.

Navdeep Bains was touted as a possible candidate in the 2014 municipal election in Brampton and was included in January 2014 polling alongside candidates like Susan Fennell and John Sanderson in which he finished third among voters polled.

The next day, Navdeep Bains announced that the mandatory long form census would be restored for 2016, after it was removed from the 2011 edition under the Harper government.

Navdeep Bains's portfolio includes responsibility for the six regional development agencies across Canada: Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency ; Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions ; Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency ; Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario ; Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario ; Western Economic Diversification Canada.

In 2018, Navdeep Bains announced $950 million for a variety of national superclusters of innovation across the country.

Navdeep Bains locked in the manufacturing of the C-Series in Montreal, protecting 6,000 direct jobs in Ontario and Quebec in the aerospace industry.

Navdeep Bains worked closely with the Advisory Council on Economic Growth, which advised the minister of finance on economic policies to achieve long-term sustainable growth.

Navdeep Bains introduced legislation to amend the Copyright Act with respect to improving access to works by persons with a perceptual disability, which subsequently received Royal Assent in June 2016, thus enabling Canada to become the key 20th nation to accede to the Marrakesh Treaty, bringing the Treaty into force on September 30,2016.

Navdeep Bains put forward bill C-25, proposing to amend federal corporate law to promote corporate transparency and increase diversity on corporate boards.

Navdeep Bains is a recipient of Startup Canada's Policy Prize.

In 2017, Navdeep Bains was listed in The Globe and Mail's The Power 50.

Navdeep Bains is featured as the second influencer on the 2018 Bay Street Bull Power 50 list, and Apolitical listed him among the World's 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government.