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{{Infobox CanadianMP
| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| name = Bardish Chagger
| honorific-suffix ={{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|MP|size=100%}}
| image = Waterloo MP 2017.jpg
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| office = [[Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities|Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth]]
| primeminister = [[Justin Trudeau]]
| term_start = November 20, 2019
| term_end = October 26, 2021
| predecessor = ''Position created''
| successor = [[Ahmed Hussen]] (Diversity and Inclusion) [[Marci Ien]] (Youth)
| office1 = [[Leader of the Government in the House of Commons (Canada)|Leader of the Government in the House of Commons]]
| primeminister1 = [[Justin Trudeau]]
| term_start1 = August 19, 2016
| term_end1 = November 20, 2019
| predecessor1 = [[Dominic LeBlanc]]
| successor1 = [[Pablo Rodríguez (Canadian politician)|Pablo Rodríguez]]
| office2 = [[Minister of Small Business and Tourism]]
| primeminister2 = [[Justin Trudeau]]
| term_start2 = November 4, 2015
| term_end2 = July 18, 2018
| predecessor2 = [[Maxime Bernier]]
| successor2 = [[Melanie Joly]] (Tourism) [[Mary Ng]] (Small Business)
| riding3 = [[Waterloo (federal electoral district)|Waterloo]]
| parliament3 = Canadian
| term_start3 = October 19, 2015
| term_end3 =
| predecessor3 = ''Riding established''
| successor3 =
| birth_date ={{birth date and age|mf=yes|1980|4|6}}
| birth_place =[[Waterloo, Ontario|Waterloo]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| death_date =
| death_place =
| profession = [[Community organizing|Community organizer]]
| party = [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
| residence = [[Waterloo, Ontario]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elections.ca/res/rep/off/ovr2019app/51/table12E.html|title=Official Voting Results|publisher=Elections Canada|access-date=January 23, 2021}}</ref>
| website = {{url|http://bardishchaggermp.ca/|bardishchaggermp.ca}}
| footnotes =
| spouse =
| children=
| alma_mater = [[University of Waterloo]]
|}}

'''Bardish Chagger''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|MP}} (born April 6, 1980) is a Canadian politician who served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2021. A member of the [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party]], Chagger has sat in the [[House of Commons of Canada|House of Commons]] as the [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] for the [[electoral district (Canada)|riding]] of [[Waterloo (federal electoral district)|Waterloo]] since the [[2015 Canadian federal election|2015 federal election]].<ref>"[http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5968087-liberal-chagger-takes-waterloo/ Liberal Chagger takes Waterloo]", ''[[Waterloo Region Record]]'', 20 October 2015.</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=20 October 2015|title=19 Indian-Canadians elected to Canadian parliament|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/nris-in-news/19-indian-canadians-elected-to-canadian-parliament/articleshow/49464520.cms|access-date=20 October 2015|publisher=[[The Economic Times]]|archive-date=11 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151111145903/http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/nris-in-news/19-indian-canadians-elected-to-canadian-parliament/articleshow/49464520.cms|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Chagger previously held the portfolios of [[Leader of the Government in the House of Commons]] and [[Minister of Small Business and Tourism]].<ref name="CBC News">{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cabinet-shuffle-house-learder-1.3728243|title=Bardish Chagger adds government House leader to small business, tourism duties|date=19 August 2016|publisher=CBC News}}</ref> Chagger was the first female [[Leader of the Government in the House of Commons]] in the history of Canada.

==Early life and education==
Chagger's parents immigrated to [[Waterloo, Ontario|Waterloo]] from [[Punjab, India]] in the 1970s. Her family is Sikh.<ref>{{cite news |last1=D'Amato |first1=Luisa |title=Bardish Chagger's politics are always local, and her office rarely locked |url=https://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/7998838-d-amato-bardish-chagger-s-politics-are-always-local-and-her-office-rarely-locked/ |access-date=26 June 2018 |publisher=Waterloo Region Record |date=15 December 2017}}</ref> Her father, Gurminder "Gogi" Chagger, was active in the Liberal Party and an admirer of [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Pierre Trudeau]]. Chagger's first involvement in politics came in the [[1993 Canadian federal election|1993 federal election]] as a 13-year-old volunteer for [[Andrew Telegdi]]'s successful campaign in Waterloo.<ref name="Loves political life" />

She attended the [[University of Waterloo]], with aspirations to become a nurse, but she subsequently became an executive assistant to Telegdi, who represented Waterloo in the House of Commons for the Liberals from 1993 to 2008.<ref name="Loves political life">{{cite web | url=http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6047089-newly-elected-waterloo-mp-bardish-chagger-loves-the-political-life/ | title=Newly elected Waterloo MP Bardish Chagger loves the political life | publisher=[[The Waterloo Region Record]] | date=27 October 2015 | access-date=4 November 2015 | author=Mercer, Greg}}</ref>

Chagger graduated from the University of Waterloo with a bachelor of science degree.<ref name="Named to Cabinet">{{cite web | url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/waterloo-mp-bardish-chagger-named-to-justin-trudeau-s-cabinet-1.3303633 | title=Waterloo MP Bardish Chagger named to Justin Trudeau's cabinet | publisher=[[CBC News]] | date=4 November 2015 | access-date=4 November 2015}}</ref> After Telegedi's defeat in 2008, Chagger became a director of special events for the Kitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Centre.<ref name="Named to Cabinet" />

==Federal politics==
Chagger volunteered for [[Justin Trudeau]]'s [[2013 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election|2013 party leadership bid]], and subsequently became the Liberal Party's candidate in the newly reconstituted [[Waterloo (federal electoral district)|Waterloo]] riding. She took 49.7% of the vote and defeated two-term [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative]] incumbent [[Peter Braid]], who had earlier ousted her former employer Andrew Telegdi.<ref name="Loves political life" /><ref name="Named to Cabinet" />

===Minister for Small Business and Tourism===
On November 4, 2015, Chagger was sworn in as [[Minister of Small Business and Tourism]].<ref>Record Staff, [http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6080283-waterloo-mp-chagger-named-to-federal-cabinet/ Waterloo MP Chagger named to federal cabinet], ''The Waterloo Region Record'', November 4, 2015</ref>

As a result of the July 18, 2018 cabinet shuffle, Chagger's responsibilities for Small Business were given to [[Mary Ng]], and [[Mélanie Joly]] took on the responsibilities of Tourism.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-cabinet-shuffle-2018-1.4749976 |title=Trudeau cabinet shuffle brings new faces, several changes for run-up to 2019 campaign |work=CBC News |last=Harris |first=Kathleen |date=July 18, 2018 |access-date=July 28, 2018}}</ref>

===Leader of the Government in the House of Commons===
On August 19, 2016, Chagger was sworn in as [[Leader of the Government in the House of Commons]] replacing [[Dominic Leblanc]] in the position. She retained her responsibilities as [[Minister of Small Business and Tourism]] until the July 18, 2018 cabinet shuffle.<ref name="CBC News"/>

On March 10, 2017, Chagger in her role as Government House Leader released a discussion paper titled ''Modernization of the Standing Orders of the House of Commons''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.canada.ca/en/leader-government-house-commons/services/reform-standing-orders-house-commons/2017/march.html|title=Reforming the Standing Orders of the House of Commons|last=Office|first=Privy Council|date=2017-03-10|website=aem|access-date=2019-04-08}}</ref> which sought to implement different ways that House of Commons procedure and practice could be improved to be more accountable, predictable and available to all Members of Parliament, and the public. The modernization paper suggested reforms to the House of Commons such as the implementation of electronic voting, the curtailment of Friday sittings, the reformation of Question Period, including a Prime Minister's Question Period, changes to the process of prorogation, greater powers for the Speaker to separate votes and committee studies on omnibus bills and legislative programming.

Opposition members of Parliament were concerned with the reforms proposed in the discussion paper, in particular with proposals to implement legislative programming and the elimination or change of Friday sittings in the House of Commons. In late April 2017, Chagger sent a letter to her counterparts, then New Democratic Party House Leader Murray Rankin and Conservative House Leader Candice Bergen, to inform them that the government would be abandoning several of the key proposals that were part of the modernization paper, such as changes to the Friday sitting, legislative programming, and electronic voting.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/346845163/Government-House-Leader-Bardish-Chagger-s-letter-to-her-opposition-counterparts|title=Government House Leader Bardish Chagger's letter to her opposition counterparts {{!}} Government|website=Scribd|language=en|access-date=2019-04-08}}</ref> They would continue however with proposals that were explicitly part of the 2015 Liberal election platform, including the decision to have a Prime Minister’s Question Period, requiring the government to issue a report following the use of prorogation, and allowing the [[Speaker of the House of Commons (Canada)|speaker of the House of Commons]] to separate votes or committee studies on different parts of a bill that he or she deems to be omnibus.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/3415895/house-of-commons-rules-reform-dropped/|title=Liberals shelve House of Commons reform plans after opposition criticism - National {{!}} Globalnews.ca|date=2017-04-30|website=globalnews.ca|language=en|access-date=2019-04-08}}</ref>

===WE Charity Ethics Investigation===
{{see also|WE Charity controversy}}
In July 2020, Chagger was the first witness who testified in front of a parliamentary committee investigating awarding of a sole-sourced contract to run Canada Student Service Grant (CSSG) to [[We Charity|WE Charity]], an organization with ties to Prime Minister [[Justin Trudeau]] and [[Minister of Finance (Canada)|Finance Minister]] [[Bill Morneau]]. Chagger was the one who signed the contracts with WE Charity, and had met with WE Charity days before student program was announced by Trudeau.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-20|title=Liberal minister Bardish Chagger met with WE Charity days before student program was announced by Trudeau|url=https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2020/07/20/liberal-minister-bardish-chagger-met-with-we-charity-days-before-student-program-was-announced-by-trudeau.html|access-date=2020-08-02|website=thestar.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=Jul 21, 2020|title=Waterloo MP Chagger says she won't resign over WE Charity scandal|work=CBC News|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/waterloo-mp-minister-bardish-chagger-we-charity-1.5657204|access-date=Aug 2, 2020}}</ref> Originally it was reported that WE charity would get a payment of at least $19.5 million, later it was disclosed that the contract was paying them up to $43.5 million to run student volunteer grant program. Chagger testified that it was the public service that recommended the grant program be outsourced to a third party via a contribution agreement, specifically it was Assistant Deputy Minister of Employment and Social Development Rachel Wernick.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Trudeau government was willing to pay WE Charity up to $43.5M to run student volunteer grant program|url=https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/trudeau-government-was-willing-to-pay-we-charity-up-to-43-5m-to-run-student-volunteer-grant-program|access-date=2020-07-17|website=National Post|language=en-CA}}</ref>

==Electoral record==
{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2021|Waterloo (federal electoral district)|Waterloo|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}}
{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Bardish Chagger|26,926|45.1|-3.7}}
{{CANelec|CA|Conservative|Meghan Shannon|16,528|27.7|+3.2}}
{{CANelec|CA|NDP|Jonathan Cassels|11,360|19.0|+3.8}}
{{CANelec|CA|PPC|Patrick Doucette|2,802|4.7|+3.0}}
{{CANelec|CA|Green|Karla Villagomez Fajardo|2,038|3.4|-6.3}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes|59,654|99.4}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots|353|0.6}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Turnout|60,007|69.4}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Eligible voters|86,456}}
{{CANelec/hold|CA|Liberal|-3.5}}
{{CANelec/source|Source: [[Elections Canada]]<ref>{{cite web |title=List of confirmed candidates – September 20, 2021 Federal Election |url=https://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=can&dir=cand/lst&document=index&lang=e |website=[[Elections Canada]] |access-date=2 September 2021}}</ref>|}}
{{end}}

{{2019 Canadian federal election/Waterloo}}
{{2015 Canadian federal election/Waterloo}}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{official website|http://bardishchaggermp.ca/}}
* [https://pm.gc.ca/en/cabinet/honourable-bardish-chagger Bio & mandate from the Prime Minister] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201210013004/https://pm.gc.ca/en/cabinet/honourable-bardish-chagger |date=2020-12-10 }}
* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=18546}}

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