NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, spouse Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu announce baby on the way
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In addition to facing a highly anticipated fall election, the leader of the federal NDP is soon to be a dad.
Jagmeet Singh and his spouse, Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu, Thursday announced on Instagram they are expecting a baby.
“We are having a baby!!!” Singh posted to Instagram Thursday afternoon. “(Gurkiran) and I are so excited for this new adventure.”
Singh has typically kept his private life and marriage out of the public eye, with the exception of surprising Sidhu by proposing to her in front of family, friends and media in Toronto in 2018.
They also held a 2017 winter ceremony celebrating their relationship, which Singh said was not quite an engagement party.
Sidhu is a designer and co-founder of a Punjabi clothing line. The couple, who live in Burnaby, B.C., married in February 2018, and honeymooned in Mexico. This will be their first child.
In an interview with the Star, Singh said he found out they were expecting a child right before the news came out about the graves of former residential schoolchildren found in Kamloops.
“It hit me differently,” Singh said, recalling being asked by a reporter at the time what he would say to the parents of those children.
“I didn’t want it to be about me, but part of the reason I got choked up — I was just thinking about having a kid, and what that meant to a family … I was little extra open to that emotion.”
He said the prospect of becoming a father changes his perspective on politics, too.
“It makes it a bit more personal, thinking about the future and planning for the future. I was already worried about the future for people and now I have a little one that’s going to grow up on this planet,” he said.
“And I want to make sure the country, this place we call home, is better for this new addition to the family.”
With files from Alex Ballingall
Alex McKeen is a Vancouver-based reporter for the Star. Follow her on Twitter: @alex_mckeen
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