Canadian Parliamentary Diabetes Champion

Since Indian born Sonia Sidhu MP (Liberal) was first elected to the Canadian Parliament in 2015, she has championed diabetes awareness.

She has taken a leading role in the ‘Let’s Defeat Diabetes’ campaign in the country while promoting Private Member’s Bill C-237 that seeks to create a National Framework for Diabetes Her Bill received unanimous cross-party support and now goes to the Canadian Senate for further scrutiny and hopefully similar support.

Advocacy Action: Do you have a Private Members’ Bill mechanism within your Parliament? Is there a need for something similar? Read her full story with more detail on the Bill in the link.