The appointment of a Syrian immigrant as Minister of Transport in the Canadian government

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a Canadian of Syrian origin, has appointed Omar Al-Ghabra as Minister of Transport

And the official page of the Canadian Ministry of Transport announced the appointment of Al-Ghubra at its head, welcomed him, and published an overview of his work in the field of politics since he was a deputy in Parliament for Mississauga.

After his appointment, Al-Ghabra published a tweet in which he said: “I extend my thanks to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after my appointment as Minister of Transport in Canada.” And he added in another tweet: “We have an ambitious program ahead of us. .

Trudeau's choice of Ghabra as Minister of Transport was not in vain, especially at a time when the country, like other countries of the world, is going through a state of "crises" following the "Corona" epidemic. Rather, it depended on the outcome of his years in the Canadian Parliament, and also on his personal behavior, He has been praised by the Canadian media in several reports, since he took his first seat in Parliament in 2006.

Al-Ghabra, who arrived at the age of nineteen to Canada, was the first Canadian of Syrian origin to reach the Canadian Parliament, in 2006, and his activism did not stop there, but he was re-elected for a second and third time in Parliament, in 2015 and in October of 2019.

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