Editing Sukh Dhaliwal

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'''Sukh Dhaliwal''', ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_language Punjabi]: ਸੁਖ ਧਾਲੀਵਾਲ) MP (born October 1, 1960 in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab,_India Punjab, India]) is a businessman and politician in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia British Columbia], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada Canada], who was the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada Liberal] Member of Parliament for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton—North_Delta Newton—North Delta] from 2006 to 2011. 

He emigrated from India in 1984 and became a Canadian citizen three years later. As a businessman, he founded a successful land surveying company and played an important role in the municipal politics of Surrey where he is said to have dominated the Surrey Electors Team membership list by signing up over 2,600 new party members.  This represented over half the total number of members. However, in the November 1999 municipal elections Dhaliwal lost his own bid for a seat on city council.

He was the federal Liberal candidate for the Newton-North Delta riding in 2004, but lost to Conservative [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurmant_Grewal Gurmant Grewal] by just over 500 votes. After a turbulent term in office, Grewal decided to not seek re-election, and in 2006 Dhaliwal faced Conservative newcomer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Eidsvik Phil Eidsvik]. The NDP was also strong in the riding, and 2004 candidate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Clegg Nancy Clegg], also ran again. Dhaliwal succeeded in winning the seat by 1000 votes.

In the 2006 Liberal leadership campaign, Dhaliwal initially supported [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Volpe Joe Volpe].  After Volpe encountered a fundraising scandal, Dhaliwal withdrew his support and moved to support [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ignatieff Michael Ignatieff]. Dhaliwal was instrumental in building support for Ignatieff's campaign in the Sikh community. Dhaliwal played a key role in Ignatieff’s short-lived, but successful, second leadership campaign in 2008.

On October 14, 2008 Dhaliwal was re-elected to Parliament by 2500 votes, defeating the NDP’s Teresa Townsley, a Delta School Board trustee, and the Conservative Party’s Sandeep Pandher.  Following the election, Dhaliwal was elected as the Chair of the Northern and Western Caucus of the Official Opposition, and served as the critic for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia–Pacific_Gateway_and_Corridor_Initiative Asia Pacific Gateway] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Economic_Diversification_Canada Western Economic Diversification Canada].  

Dhaliwal has served on several House of Commons Committees: International Trade; Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities; and Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.  The Ethics Committee attracted high profile attention when it investigated allegations surrounding [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Schreiber Karlheinz Schreiber]’s dealings with former Prime Minister [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Mulroney Brian Mulroney].

He lost to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinny_Sims Jinny Sims] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democratic_Party New Democratic Party] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_2011 2011 election].

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