Kamal Khera

Kamalpreet Khera (born February 4, 1989) is a Canadian politician, first elected to represent the riding of Brampton West in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election and re-elected in October 2019.
Career.
Kamal Khera is a registered nurse. She attended York University where she earned an Honours Bachelors of Science in Psychology and an Honours Bachelors of Science in Nursing. Khera gained diverse experience in the health care field through her professional experience with the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health, Peel Family Shelter, and William Osler Health System. Prior to politics, she worked as a registered nurse in the oncology unit at St. Joseph’s Health Centre Toronto.
During the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021, Khera returned to the frontlines to help with vaccine rollouts in her community. Khera helped to vaccinate healthcare workers. 
Before running for office, Khera served as chairperson of South Asian Canadians Heritage Foundation, a mentor and program coordinator with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peel, and an event coordinator with Sick Kids Foundation. She also hosted "Youth Vision", a local TV talk show that explored issues surrounding young South Asian Canadians.
Federal Politics.
Khera was nominated as the Liberal Party's candidate in Brampton West in December 2014, and won the seat in the federal election in the following October. She was recruited and mentored by longtime Liberal organiser and social activist Raj Jhajj for this position. When first elected in 2015, Khera was the youngest Liberal MP in the House, and the second-youngest overall behind the NDP's Pierre-Luc Dusseault.
Parliamentary Secretary
On December 2, 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Khera as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health, then as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue (January 2017 – August 2018) and from August 2018 to January 2021, Khera served as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister to International Development. Currently, Khera sits on the Standing Committee of Public Safety and National Security. She served as a member on the Standing Committee of Finance from September 2017 to September 2018, and the Standing Committee of Foreign Affairs and International Development from September 2018 to September 2019.
Khera stepped down from her role as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister to International Development in January 2021, after having travelled to Seattle in December for a memorial service for her uncle despite the border between the United States and Canada being closed to all nonessential travel at the time due to the coronavirus pandemic.