Parliamentary Records
With the 2004 election of his wife, Nina Grewal, became first married couple to serve concurrently in the House of Commons. It is also a record in the Commonwealth.
- First Indo-Canadian and Sikh MP elected to Her Majesty’s Loyal Official Opposition of Canada and the first Ethnic candidate of the Reform Party in Canada
- Shortest period of time between immigrating to Canada and winning election to the House of Commons (5 years and 8 months)
- As Deputy House Leader, first non-Caucasian to be an officer of the House
- Called “The Iron Man” of the Canadian Parliament
- Only member of the Canadian Alliance to receive Royal Ascent for a Private Member’s bill (C-205),
- Holds parliamentary record for attending the most consecutive votes – 471 over a 43-hour period
- Frequently delivered more speeches than his colleagues during sessions of the House of Commons
- Introduced 15 Private Members’ bills and 40 motions
- Awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for Outstanding Services to Canada
- Named 2002 Leader of the Year by Radio India
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“Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)