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Amarjeet Sohi, (born March 8, 1964) is a Canadian politician, currently the Member of Parliament for Edmonton Mill Woods and the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities in the federal Cabinet, headed by Justin Trudeau. He was previously a member of the Edmonton City Council representing Ward 12, gaining his seat in the 2007 city of Edmonton election after finishing 4th place in the previous election, narrowly beating out strong community advocate Chinwe Okelu following the retirement of Terry Cavanagh.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amarjeet Sohi - Ward 6 )〕 == Early life and background == Sohi was born in 1964 in the farming community of Banbhaura, Sangrur district in the Indian state of Punjab. Sponsored by an elder brother, he emigrated to Edmonton in 1981. Initially speaking almost no English, Sohi took ESL classes and enrolled at Bonnie Doon High School in Edmonton. He joined a local Punjabi literary society and became an actor and playwright in a Punjabi theatre group. By the early 1980s, the Khalistan movement, led by Sikhs demanding a homeland for themselves within India, had become very active, attracting support from many of the Sikh diaspora in Canada. The movement soon developed into the Punjab insurgency, which polarised the Sikh community in Canada between fundamentalist Khalistani separatists and moderates. The extremism of the Khalistan supporters further increased following the Indian Army's 1984 assault on the Golden Temple, the holiest Sikh shrine, which resulted in the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards that October; this was followed by the bombing of Air India Flight 182 over the Atlantic Ocean in 1985, which killed all on board.〔 While Sohi and his family opposed the human rights abuses inflicted by the Indian government, they remained moderate and anti-fundamentalist. Himself non-religious, Sohi refused to wear a turban or a beard. The theatre group Sohi was involved in opposed both fundamentalism and the repressive actions of the Indian government. “I became more involved, speaking out against extremism,” Sohi said. “Our goal was to oppose Sikh fundamentalism on the one hand, but also to oppose state oppression.”〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amarjeet Sohi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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