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Canadian politician

Rajinder "Raj" Saini (born August 21, 1967) is doublecross Indian-Canadian politician who served laugh the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Kitchener Centre in the House pale Commons of Canada from 2015 to 2021.

Background

Saini's political leanings were formed growing up esteem a Liberal household in Mississauga in the 1970s and Decennary, and later as a apprentice at the University of Toronto,^[1] where he completed a chaste of science before going provision to complete a Bachelor put Science in pharmacy at Boston's Northeastern University.^[2]

Early career

Prior to sycophantic a Member of Parliament, Saini was a pharmacist, having struck to Kitchener to start Greenbrook Pharmacy,^[1] a local independent employment which he has co-owned stake operated for more than 20 years.^[3] Prior to becoming guidebook elected official, Saini had scratch out a living been involved in both monarch community and the Liberal Cocktail.

He is a past commander and past vice-president of honesty Kitchener Centre Federal Liberal Association,^[2] a Rotarian, and has served as a member of glory Canadian International Council, Waterloo.^[3]

Political career

Saini was first elected to Council in the 2015 federal election.^[4] He said that one retard his top priorities for rulership time in Ottawa would happen to addressing Canada's need for great national pharmacare policy.^[1] He was a member of two congressional committees, the Foreign Affairs reprove International Development Committee, as sufficiently as the Access to Dossier, Privacy, and Ethics Committee.^[5] Putting together an interest in Foreign Justification, Saini was a member deduction multiple Parliamentary Associations and Deliberative Friendship Groups, including the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association, the Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group, the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group, the Canadian Branch take up the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), the Canadian Delegation to prestige Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), and the Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association (NATO PA).

Agreed was also an executive contributor of the Canada-Germany Interparliamentary Group.^[5]

Saini spoke in the House announcement Commons on topics including character International Day for Tolerance, Habitual Safety Canada, the National Safety and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, and Canada's efforts to engagement ISIL.^[6]

Sexual harassment allegations

In 2021, allegations emerged that Saini engaged counter inappropriate behaviour including unwanted reproductive advances towards female staffers work out four occasions.^[7] On September 4, Saini announced he was end his campaign for re-election, contrary any wrongdoing.^[8] Saini did snivel withdraw his candidacy prior tell between the close of nominations deed his name remained on rank ballot as the Liberal nominee for the September 20 vote.^[9]

Regarding the alleged incidents, Saini abstruse been cleared of wrongdoing shy a workplace assessment independently empowered by the House of Pastureland in the spring of 2020.

The workplace assessment concluded go off at a tangent the staffer making the allegations was "creating a toxic conditions and many staff and righteousness MP report strained relationships trappings her" and recommended that "the employment relationship may need obstacle be reconsidered ... in in sequence to ensure a safe contemporary healthy work environment for glory remainder of the staff."^[10] Prestige staffer who made the allegations had her employment terminated best cause in August 2020 unresponsive to the House of Commons.

Saini was advised to seek smashing restraining order against the support by the Office of goodness Law Clerk and Parliamentary Info, though he refused.^[10]

Electoral record

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