Jagmeet singh ndp biography books
From the leader of Canada's New Democratic Party—Jagmeet Singh—comes a personal and heartfelt story about family and overcoming adversity.!
Jagmeet Singh is the leader of the New Democratic Party and Member of Parliament for the riding of Burnaby South.
Jagmeet Singh's new memoir, a compelling story about overcoming abuse, opts for the personal over the political
The backbone of the story is Singh’s relationship with his father, and the alcoholism that tore the family apart and nearly killed him
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OTTAWA — There’s a particularly gut-wrenching scene in Jagmeet Singh’s new memoir, Love & Courage, where he returns as a young lawyer to his father’s Windsor apartment, littered with empty liquor bottles and lottery tickets.
Ravaged by years of alcoholism, his father weighs just 110 pounds and uses a walker to get around. Singh describes carrying his father to the bathroom and bathing him, while his father tries to make small talk. Before leaving, he moves to empty an open bottle of vodka on the kitchen counter, but his mother stops him.
“Either he will die, or he will go to a hospital to live,” she tells him. “We can’t force him — it’s his choice.”
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