Four of the 22 Indian-origin individuals who won the April 28 national votes in Canada made it to PM Mark Carney’s just sworn-in government on Tuesday. Anita Anand and Maninder Sidhu are the two women who were chosen as officials, while Ruby Sahota and Randeep Singh Sarai, the other two, may serve as secretaries of state. Anand, 57, a skilled politician and constitutional expert, was chosen as the foreign affairs minister. She recently held important positions under both Justin Trudeau and Carney, including as secretary of advancement, science, and industry, and as secretary of national defense. Anand, a native of Oakville, Ontario, is the child of Indian expat doctors. She joined the legislature in 2019 and rapidly climbed up. She acted as the minister of public service and purchasing, overseeing the procurement of PPE and vaccines, during the pandemic. During her time as minister of defense, she likewise led Canada’s military support efforts to Ukraine. She began her political career as an MP from the Ontario seat of Oakville. Sidhu, a 41-year-old Brampton East representative, was promoted to minister of global commerce after earlier holding the position of secretary of state. Sidhu won three straight votes, first elected in 2019 and now holds his chair. He was appointed political director for global development in 2021 and has served on the standing boards on natural resources, transportation, facilities, and communities. Sahota, 45, was appointed as the country’s secretary of state for preventing murder. She has won four Liberal MP victories in a row and is a solicitor by education. In Trudeau’s last months in office, she served as the minister of political organisations from December 2024 to March 2025 and as the government’s chief executive. Sarai, 50, was appointed secretary of state for global development for British Columbia’s Surrey Centre. He was born and raised in Vancouver to Punjabi immigrant families and has been a member of Parliament since 2015. Sarai, who holds a law education, has consistently held his seat in four votes. Ontario, home to three of the four new case appointees, Anand, Sidhu, and Sahota, who hail from the province, became the essential province in Indo-Canadian representation.
