riding website predecessor religion birth_place profession party birth_date term_start residence spouse article_title name
calgary east -lsb- http://www.deepakobhrai.com/ www.deepakobhrai.com -rsb- alex kindy hindu oldeani , tanzania dry cleaner , businessman conservative 5 july 1950 1997 calgary neena obhrai deepak obhrai
 '' ` deepak obhrai '' '
deepak obhrai

deepak obhrai , pc , mp -lrb- born july 5 , 1950 in oldeani , tanzania -rrb- is a canadian politician , representing the riding of calgary east for the conservative party of canada .
he is currently serving as the parliamentary secretary to the minister of foreign affairs .
he was first elected in 1997 for the reform party of canada , and was re-elected when the reform party became the canadian alliance in 2000 .
in 2004 , 2006 , 2008 and 2011 he was elected as a member of the conservative party of canada .
he was also one of four alliance mps who agreed to sit with the progressive conservative caucus after the december 9 , 2003 creation of the merged conservative party .
the progressive conservative and canadian alliance parliamentary caucuses were not officially merged until a few weeks later .
as an opposition member he served as the opposition critic for international cooperation , multiculturalism , international trade and of cida .
on september 19 , 2013 , obhrai was appointed to the queen 's privy council for canada by governor general of canada david johnston on the advice of prime minister stephen harper .
in september 2014 , obhrai received the pride of india award from the indo-american friends group of washington dc and the indo-american business chamber in a dinner ceremony held on capitol hill for his contributions towards strengthening canada 's political , social and cultural relations with india and for his role in increasing indian diaspora participation in pluralistic political activity .
