Iqra Khalid

Iqra Khalid (born 20 November 1986) is a Pakistani-Canadian lawyer and Liberal politician who has served as the member of Parliament for Mississauga—Erin Mills in the House of Commons since the 2015 federal election.¹ She served as parliamentary secretary to the minister of national revenue from 18 September 2023.¹

Khalid was born in Rukanpur, in Rahim Yar Khan District, Punjab, Pakistan; in 1993 her family moved to England while her father completed his doctorate, and in 1998 they immigrated to Canada and settled in Mississauga, where her parents ran a small family business.¹ She graduated from York University in 2007, where she studied criminology and professional writing, worked at an immigration firm, and completed a Juris Doctor at Cooley Law School in 2012, graduating with honours.¹

Khalid won the Liberal nomination for Mississauga—Erin Mills in December 2014 and defeated the two-term Conservative incumbent in the 2015 election; she was re-elected in 2019, 2021 and 2025.¹ She has served on the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, which she chaired from 2019 to 2021, and on the Subcommittee on International Human Rights.¹ In the 45th Parliament she was elected vice-chair of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women and of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates.¹

In December 2016 Khalid introduced private member's motion M-103, asking the government to develop a strategy to tackle systemic racism and religious discrimination, including Islamophobia.¹ In 2016 she brought forward a successful motion in the Subcommittee on International Human Rights to study the plight of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, and in 2017 a successful motion for a study of human trafficking in the justice committee.¹ From 2020 to 2021 she took part in the international human rights subcommittee's study of the Uyghurs, which concluded that the treatment of the Uyghurs was constitutive of genocide.¹ Chatelaine magazine named her one of its Women of the Year in 2017 for her human-rights work.¹

The judgements in this section belong to their sources, not to the museum. Motion M-103 drew sustained public and parliamentary debate in 2017, in which Khalid defended the motion as a step against systemic racism and religious discrimination.¹ In 2023 she testified before the Senate of Canada in connection with its study of Islamophobia in Canada.¹

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