Navdeep Bains | |
|---|---|
2.jpg) | |
| Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Registrar General of Canada | |
| In office November 4, 2015 – January 12, 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | James Moore |
| Succeeded by | François-Philipe Champagne |
| Member of Parliament forMississauga—Malton | |
| In office October 19, 2015 – September 20, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Iqwinder Gaheer |
| Member of Parliament forMississauga—Brampton South | |
| In office June 28, 2004 – May 2, 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Eve Adams |
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada | |
| In office October 7, 2005 – November 29, 2005 | |
| Prime Minister | Paul Martin |
| Preceded by | Paul DeVillers |
| Succeeded by | Jason Kenney |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Navdeep Singh Bains (1977-06-16)June 16, 1977 (age 48) |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse | Brahamjot Bains |
| Residence(s) | Mississauga,Ontario |
| Education | Turner Fenton Secondary School |
| Alma mater | York University (BMS) University of Windsor (MBA) |
| Profession | Accountant, financial analyst and investment banker |
Navdeep Singh BainsPC FCPA (born June 16, 1977) is a Canadian politician who served asMinister of Innovation, Science and Industry from 2015 to 2021. A member of theLiberal Party, he represented the riding ofMississauga—Malton in theHouse of Commons from 2015 to 2021. He previously represented the riding ofMississauga—Brampton South from2004 to2011.
AsMinister of Innovation, Science and Industry, he held responsibility for overseeing the economic development and corporate affairs of the Government of Canada, as well as developing and implementing research and development policy aimed at increasing productivity and the quality of life.
Bains unexpectedly retired from politics in January 2021 and joinedCIBC as Vice-Chair, Global Investment Banking in September 2021.[1] In May 2023, he became the Chief Corporate Affairs Officer for Rogers Communications, a major telecommunications provider in Canada.
Bains was born inToronto,Ontario on June 16, 1977,[2] toJat Sikh parents, Harminder and Balwinder Bains.[3] His family has origins from 2 Villages Lehli Kalan &Mahilpur, District Hoshiarpur,Punjab. but his grandfather later moved to Village Chak no 12PS, Tehsil Raisinghnagar, districtSri Ganganagar and later they immigrated to Canada.[4]
Bains graduated fromTurner Fenton Secondary School in Brampton,[5] while it was known as J. A. Turner Secondary School and Turner Fenton Campus.[6] After completing high school, Bains attendedYork University, where he received hisBachelor of Management Studies.[7] He then went on to finish hisMasters in Business Administration from theUniversity of Windsor.[7] He received hisCertified Management Accountant designation, subsequently becoming aChartered Professional Accountant in 2014.[2] In 2016, he was awarded the prestigious FCPA designation by CPA Ontario for his "outstanding achievements including community leadership".[8]
Bains worked as a financial processing analyst atNike Canada from 2000 to 2001.[9] He also worked for theFord Motor Company as a revenue and costing analyst from 2000 until 2004.[10]
In his first election in 2004, Bains won the Liberal nomination for the riding ofMississauga—Brampton South, and won the seat with over 57% of the total vote; beating his next nearest opponent by over 33%, or over 14,000 votes.[11] At that time, Bains was 26 years old and the youngest Liberal MP in Parliament.[12]
Bains was elected chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Development of theStanding 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 wasPaul Martin.[13] As parliamentary secretary to the prime minister, Bains was sworn in as a member of thePrivy Council, and served until February 5, 2006, the day before the Conservative government ofStephen Harper was sworn in after the2006 federal election.[2][14]
In October 2005, Bains also became a member of the Red Ribbon Task Force that released a 2006 report on revitalizing the party organization.[15]
In 2006, Bains was re-elected in his riding with just under 54% of the vote.[16]
Also in 2006, Bains co-chaired the Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario)'s annual general meeting Toronto.[17] Because of his position in the Party and the roles he has been given, Bains was seen as a rising star, and had been selected three years in a row in the Hill Times survey as the best up and comer.[18]
During the2006 Liberal leadership convention to replace Paul Martin, Bains threw his support behind Ontario Education MinisterGerard Kennedy, and after Kennedy dropped out before the third ballot, he joined Kennedy in supporting the eventual winner and new party leader,Stéphane Dion.[19]
In the39th Parliament, Bains heldOfficial Opposition critic portfolios forPublic Works and Government Services, theTreasury Board andInternational Trade, respectively.[2] Bains was also member of the Liberal Caucus Committees for Planning and Priorities, Canada and the World and Economic Prosperity.[20] In January 2007, he was appointed to the National Election Readiness Committee as a Caucus Representative and in March 2007 served as the Youth Liaison to theYoung Liberals of Canada.[20]
In January 2009, he was selected byMichael Ignatieff along withSteve MacKinnon to serve as Co-Chairs of the Special Committee on Party Renewal and tasked with heading a consultation process with the party membership on how to strengthen the party.[20][21] In March 2009, Bains was appointed Chair of Platform Development and oversaw the creation of the party's next electoral platform.[20] As part of his recommendations for party renewal, delegates at the2009 Liberal leadership election voted to ensure that all future leadership elections would be under a "weighted one member, one vote" system, where each riding has 100 points that are distributed to leadership candidates based on the percentage of votes from party members in that riding.[19]
During the40th Parliament, Bains held Official Opposition critic portfolios forNatural Resources andSmall Business and Tourism.[2]
In January 2011, Bains claimed that theBloc Québécois was using "the politics of fear" and argued against their attempt to ban the ceremonial Sikhkirpan from the parliamentary buildings after an incident in which theQuebec National Assembly denied entry to a group of four kirpan-wearing Sikhs.[22][23]
In the2011 federal election,Eve Adams, a former Mississauga City Councillor, beat Bains by over 5,000 votes.[24]
Bains was a director of theMunicipal Property Assessment Corporation from September 2012 to September 2015.[25] He also served on the Ontario Provincial Board of theHeart and Stroke Foundation, including a stint as Vice Chair starting December 2014.[26] Bains is also on the board of advisors for the Pearson Centre for Progressive Policy.[27]
Bains also entered academia and became an adjunct lecturer in a Master of Public Service program at theUniversity of Waterloo and a distinguished visiting professor at theTed Rogers School of Management atRyerson University, starting in 2013 for a one-year term.[7][28] His teaching contract at Ryerson was extended, and he was still a professor at the time of his re-election in 2015.[29]
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.[30] Provincial LiberalLinda Jeffrey subsequently ran for mayor and won.[31]
.jpg)
Bains was the Ontario co-chair for the federal Liberal campaign, and was returned to the House of Commons in the2015 federal election in the new riding ofMississauga—Malton.[29][32] On November 4, 2015, he was appointed theminister of innovation, science and economic development inJustin Trudeau'sCabinet.[33] The next day, Bains announced that the mandatory long form census would be restored for 2016, after it wasremoved from the 2011 edition under the Harper government.[34] Under Bains’ leadership, the2016 Census response rate exceeded 98 percent, making it the most successful Census since1666.[35]
A major focus of Bains’ mandate is to spur innovation and economic development in Canada. Following public consultations across Canada in the summer of 2016, he launched the Inclusive Innovation Agenda. Based on the consultations, the Bains identified three priority areas for Canada's Innovation Agenda: finding better ways for more Canadians to get the skills the global economy demands (People), harnessing emerging tech that would create industries and jobs that never existed before as well as reinvigorate existing ones (Technology), and encouraging more Canadians to start and grow companies that are competitive in the global economy (Companies).[36][37]
His portfolio also includes responsibility for the six regional development agencies across Canada: Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA); Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions (CED); Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor); Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario); Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario (FedNor); Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD).[38]
In December 2016, he also launched Connect to Innovate, a program that will invest $500 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural and remote communities across Canada.[39] In 2018, Bains announced $950 million for a variety of nationalsuperclusters of innovation across the country.[40] To date, Minister Bains has supported 37 projects, investing $389 million, leading to nearly $4.1 billion in total investments in the automotive sector. Bains locked in the manufacturing of the C-Series in Montréal, protecting 6,000 direct jobs in Ontario and Québec in the aerospace industry. He also launched Canada's first-ever Intellectual Property Strategy.
Bains worked closely with the Advisory Council on Economic Growth, which advised the minister of finance on economic policies to achieve long-termsustainable growth. The council called for a gradual increase in permanentimmigration to Canada to 450,000 people a year.[41][42]
In 2019, Minister Bains announced Canada's Digital Charter.[43]
In August 2020, amidst a review of an August 2019 decision by theCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to reduce capacity rates by up to 43% and access rates up to 77%, Bains released a statement saying that the government shared the fears of Canada's big telecommunication corporations that it went too far and would disincentivize investment in communication networks, especially less profitable rural and remote areas. However, the statement also said that the government would not formally intervene in the ongoing review.[44]
In August 2020, Bains andMinister of Public Services and ProcurementAnita Anand, announced major steps towards securing COVID-19 vaccine and therapies.[45] Bains also announced the members of the COVID-19 Therapeutics Task Force and COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force (VTF).Nancy Harrison andCédric Bisson are co-chairs of the Therapeutics Task Force (TTF) tasked with prioritizing "financial support for promising COVID-19 treatment projects."[45] The secretariat of the Therapeutics Task Force is housed at Bains' ISEDC department.Joanne Langley andJ. Mark Lievonen are the co-chairs Vaccine Task Force advising the federal government on "vaccine development, related bio-manufacturing and international partnerships".[45] The secretariat of the Vaccine Task force is supported by theNational Research Council of Canada.[45] Potential members of the Joint Biomanufacturing Subcommittee of the COVID‐19 Vaccine Task Force and Therapeutics Task Force Meeting began meeting on June 22, 2020, to examine initial proposals fromLaval, Quebec-based-Biodextris, Calgary, Alberta-based-Providence Therapeutics, Edmonton, Alberta-based-Entos Pharmaceuticals, Montréal-basedGlycovax Pharma, Vancouver-based-Precision Nanosystems, Vancouver-basedSymvivo Incorporated,Dartmouth, Nova Scotia-based IMV, Quebec City-basedMedicago Inc., andMaryland-basedNovavax. On June 25 they began their reviews of proposals submitted byAstraZeneca,Pfizer,Variation Biotechnologies (VBI). On July 3 they reviewed Moderna's proposal. Later in July they reviewed Novavax and Johnson & Johnson, and in September Sanofi / GSK. The first announcements of approvals began on August 5 for Pfizer and Moderna and the [rest?] of the approvals were announced in October 2020.[46]
Bains introduced legislation to amend theCopyright Act with respect to improving access to works by persons with aperceptual disability, which subsequently receivedRoyal Assent in June 2016,[47] thus enabling Canada to become the key 20th nation to accede to theMarrakesh Treaty, bringing the Treaty into force on September 30, 2016.[48] He also put forward bill C-25, proposing to amend federal corporate law to promote corporate transparency and increase diversity on corporate boards.[49] In particular, the bill focuses on the participation of women on corporate boards, as well as on senior management teams. In the same Parliamentary session, Bains introduced bill C-36, intended to enhance, reinforce and protect the independence of Statistics Canada, fulfilling a campaign promise from the Liberals 2015 election platform.[50] In June 2018, both bills C-25 and C-36 received Royal Assent.
Bains currently resides inPeel with his wife, Brahamjot, with whom he has two daughters[3][5][51]
The Hill Times featured Bains on the cover of theirPower & Influence magazine in 2017. Dubbed the ‘Minister of Everything’ in the article, he was ranked 4th most influential, behind Justin Trudeau,Katie Telford andGerald Butts.[52] On April 7, 2017, CFIB's Executive Vice-President and Chief Strategic Officer Laura Jones[53] presented Bains with a Golden Scissors Award"[54] as a symbolic gesture of cutting through red tape shortly after Bains announced the interprovincial legislation entitled the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA). He is a recipient of Startup Canada's Policy Prize (2017). In 2017, Bains was listed inThe Globe and Mail's The Power 50.[55] He is featured as the second influencer on the 2018 Bay Street Bull Power 50 list,[56] and Apolitical listed him among the World's 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government.[57]
| 2019 Canadian federal election:Mississauga—Malton | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Navdeep Bains | 27,890 | 57.5 | -1.62 | $76,024.88 | |||
| Conservative | Tom Varughese | 12,528 | 25.8 | -0.64 | $86,705.72 | |||
| New Democratic | Nikki Clarke | 6,103 | 12.6 | +0.29 | $12,952.47 | |||
| Green | Christina Porter | 1,251 | 2.6 | +0.93 | $4.98 | |||
| People's | Tahir Gora | 369 | 0.8 | none listed | ||||
| United | Prudence Buchanan | 306 | 0.6 | $0.00 | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Frank Chilelli | 90 | 0.2 | $0.00 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 48,537 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 500 | |||||||
| Turnout | 49,037 | 62.0 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 79,034 | |||||||
| Liberalhold | Swing | -0.49 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[58][59] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Navdeep Bains | 26,165 | 59.12 | +22.33 | $103,144.90 | |||
| Conservative | Jagdish Grewal[60] | 11,701 | 26.44 | -11.00 | $126,893.52 | |||
| New Democratic | Dianne Douglas | 5,450 | 12.31 | -11.12 | $5,226.05 | |||
| Green | Heather Mercer | 737 | 1.67 | -0.37 | – | |||
| Independent | Naresh Tharani | 210 | 0.46 | – | $8,153.79 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 44,256 | 100.00 | $207,082.35 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 237 | 0.53 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 44,493 | 59.76 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 74,448 | |||||||
| Liberalnotional gain fromConservative | Swing | +16.67 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[61][62] | ||||||||
| 2011 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Conservative | Eve Adams | 23,632 | 44.72 | |||||
| Liberal | Navdeep Bains | 18,579 | 35.16 | |||||
| New Democratic | Jim Glavan | 9,465 | 17.91 | |||||
| Green | Benjamin Stone | 1,044 | 1.98 | |||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Tim Sullivan | 127 | 0.24 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 52,847 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 351 | 0.66 | ||||||
| Turnout | 53,198 | 57.27 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 92,890 | – | ||||||
| 2008 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Navdeep Bains | 21,220 | 47.69 | -6.25 | $ 65,107.35 | |||
| Conservative | Salma Ataullahjan | 14,664 | 32.96 | +2.21 | 51,467.58 | |||
| New Democratic | Karan Pandher | 5,268 | 11.84 | +0.96 | 5,832.24 | |||
| Green | Grace Yogaretnam | 2,947 | 6.62 | +2.82 | 5,666.20 | |||
| Marxist–Leninist | Tim Sullivan | 395 | 0.89 | +0.26 | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 44,494 | 100.00 | -12.31 | $ 91,776.94 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 343 | 0.76 | +0.15 | |||||
| Turnout | 44,837 | 49.39 | -10.62 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 90,777 | +6.71 | ||||||
| 2006 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Navdeep Bains | 27,370 | 53.94 | -3.22 | $ 80,611.34 | |||
| Conservative | Arnjeet Sangha | 15,605 | 30.75 | +6.66 | 58,602.08 | |||
| New Democratic | Nirvan Balkisoon | 5,521 | 10.88 | -3.92 | 9,470.07 | |||
| Green | Grace Yogaretnam | 1,927 | 3.80 | +0.28 | 7,606.18 | |||
| Marxist–Leninist | Tim Sullivan | 319 | 0.63 | +0.20 | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 50,742 | 100.00 | +17.17 | $ 82,924.57 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 310 | 0.61 | -0.13 | |||||
| Turnout | 51,052 | 60.01 | +6.17 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 85,068 | +4.97 | ||||||
| 2004 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||||
| Liberal | Navdeep Bains | 24,753 | 57.16 | $ 70,830.08 | ||||
| Conservative | Parvinder Sandhu | 10,433 | 24.09 | 64,050.50 | ||||
| New Democratic | Larry Taylor | 6,411 | 14.80 | 14,516.24 | ||||
| Green | Paul Simas | 1,525 | 3.52 | |||||
| Marxist–Leninist | David Gershuny | 185 | 0.43 | 23.48 | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 43,307 | 100.00 | $ 78,421.35 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 321 | 0.74 | ||||||
| Turnout | 43,628 | 53.84 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 81,037 | |||||||
| 29th Canadian Ministry (2015-2025) – Cabinet ofJustin Trudeau | ||
| Cabinet post (1) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Predecessor | Office | Successor |
| James Moore | Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development November 4, 2015 – January 12, 2021 | François-Philippe Champagne |
| Parliament of Canada | ||
| New constituency | Member of Parliament forMississauga—Malton October 19, 2015 – present | Incumbent |
| New constituency | Member of Parliament forMississauga—Brampton South June 28, 2004 – May 2, 2011 | Succeeded by |
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
