Brar seeks seat in Burrows

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asmine Brar immigrated to Winnipeg in 1998 and has called River City her home ever since. She’s married with two teenage sons — ages 17 and 13, and the family owns a dog named Teddy.

Brar, 38, currently works as a department administrator for actuarial studies and research at the University of Manitoba’s Asper School of Business. She holds a pharmacy technician diploma and also has experience in the small business and the insurance sector. 

Brar is a longtime community volunteer, as well as founder and president of a local neighbourhood association. She serves as co-chair on a parent advisory council, has served on various boards and has volunteered with many charitable organizations. 

Brar says she wants to be a strong advocate for the community in the Manitoba legislature. The number one issue she has been hearing at the doors during campaign season is the concern over increasing crime in the neighbourhood. 

Her priorities for the ward align with the PC party of Manitoba’s platform for reducing crime as part of the Safer Streets Safer Lives Action Plan, and making life more affordable for Manitobans by reducing and lowering taxes.  

If successful in her bid for Burrows, Brar’s top three priorities include: 

• Education: working with the party, she shares a commitment to build 20 new schools in the province, and working on expanding and repairing the existing infrastructure. As an elected official as part of government, Brar said she will be an advocate, ensuring Burrows gets its fair share. 

• Repairing and investing in neighbourhoods: Brar said she’d use her voice at the Manitoba legislature to get much needed repairs and investment into community centres, and parks by working as a member of government, and working with other levels of government. 

• Crime and safer streets: in keeping with the party line, Brar says she and her fellow party members are committed to making streets safer, with her focus being on the local level in her constituency. Building on her own community involvement, Brar believes in a grassroots approach to tackling crime, led by organizations such as parents and residents groups working alongside police services to make the community safer. 

Brar said she wants to work collaboratively with all stakeholders and all three levels of government to ensure the residents of Burrows have a voice in the Manitoba legislature. 

Also running in Burrows are Sarbjit Singh Gill (MLP), Edda Pangilinan (Independent), and Diljeetpal Brar (NDP). Requests for interviews from Gill, Pangilinan and Brar were not returned by press time.