‘Punjabi’ in the first week of November 2015 became the third most common language spoken in which country’s parliament?
The reason being, 20 Punjabi-speaking candidates were elected to this parliament in October 2015. Out of them, 18 are Liberals and 2 are Conservatives. Among the newly-elected Punjabi-speaking MPs, 14 are men and 6 are women.
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Parliament of CanadaTwelve candidates were elected from Ontario, 4 from British Columbia, 3 from Alberta and one belongs to Quebec. As per the Statistics of Canada’s 2011 National Household Survey, 430705 Canadians identified Punjabi as their mother tongue.