Other than doctors, both allopathic and academicians, numerous paramedics belonging to the East Indian community have impacted local, provincial, and federal politics.
The first East Indian legislators to enter provincial assemblies in Manitoba and Alberta happened to be allopathic doctors. One of them, Dr Gulzar Singh, who led the political crusade for his community in Manitoba in the mid-80s, earned the rare distinction of representing two provincial assemblies.
After his election to the Manitoba provincial assembly in 1988, two years after Munmohan (Moe) Sihota became the first East Indian to get elected to a provincial assembly in Canada, Dr Gulzar Singh earned the distinction of scripting history in the second Canadian province, Manitoba.
