Iqwinder Gaheer

Gaheer was born in Punjab, India to Maninder Singh, a construction worker and plumber, and Baljit Kaur, a homemaker. Gaheer's father had immigrated to Canada in 1992.^[2] He and the rest of his family joined his father in Canada in 1999.^{[citation needed]} Describing his early life, the Toronto Star wrote, "Gaheer has a compelling, almost made for politics, story. He was born in a small village in the Punjab. He moved to Canada when he was six years old. He spent his summers growing up in Peel working on his father’s plumbing crew."^[3]

Gaheer graduated from Bramalea Secondary School in Brampton.^[2] After completing high school, Gaheer attended the Schulich School of Business, York University where he received his Bachelor of Business Administration.^{[citation needed]} He then went on to attend Harvard Law School from 2016 to 2019, where he served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. Beginning in September 2019, Gaheer worked in New York City, in the litigation department of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a large international corporate law firm.

In his first election in 2021, Gaheer won the Liberal nomination for the riding of Mississauga—Malton by acclamation,^[4] and won the seat with approximately 53 per cent of the total vote.^[5][6] Gaheer was elected chair of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security in November 2024, and held it until Parliament was prorogued in January 2025.^[7]

In the 2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, he endorsed Mark Carney.^[8]

He was appointed as a member of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians in September 2025.^[9]

At the time of the 2025 Canadian federal election, he lived in Caledon East, Ontario.^[10]