Omar Alghabra Net Worth 2023, Age, Wife, Children, Height, Family, Parents, Salary

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Introduction

Omar Alghabra is a Saudi-born Syrian-Canadian politician who has served as Canada’s Minister of Transport since January 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, he has represented the riding of Mississauga Centre in the House of Commons since the 2015 election. He was previously the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mississauga—Erindale from 2006 to 2008.

Early life

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Name	Omar Alghabra
Net Worth	$5 million
Occupati on	Politician
Age	53 years
Height	1.75m

Omar Alghabra net worth

Omar Alghabra PC MP was born on October 24, 1969 (age 53 years) in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. He is the son of Syrian parents. His father, an architect, moved their family to Saudi Arabia in 1968. Alghabra has stated that he remembers living a sheltered life there, attending private school and visiting Syria in the summer. Alghabra completed his high school education at the Dhahran Ahliyya School in Alkhobar.

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Alghabra moved to Damascus, Syria, where he started his engineering degree at Damascus University. He decided to complete his education in Canada. Alghabra moved to Toronto when he was 19 years old to attend school. He attended grade 13 to obtain his Ontario high school diploma. Later, he completed his Bachelor of Engineering at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. Alghabra also attended York University, where he graduated with a Master of Business Administration.

Omar Alghabra’s first job was at Ainsworth Inc. as a quality assurance supervisor. He later transitioned to sales and worked as the predictive maintenance supervisor. Afterward, he joined General Electric (GE) as a Six Sigma Black Belt in the industrial service business. He became the global business leader for GE’s industrial refurbished parts business. After his political defeat in the 2008 general election, Alghabra joined ENBALA Power Networks as their vice president for corporate development.

Alghabra worked as an advisor to the COO of the Ontario Energy Board on innovation in the utility sector. Alghabra returned to the Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science after being appointed a distinguished visiting professor. In this role, he also joined Ryerson’s start-up incubator DMZ as their executive-in-residence. Alghabra was the president of the Canadian Arab Federation (CAF) in 2004–2005. After Alghabra left CAF, the group made controversial statements, and Alghabra condemned those statements.

Political career

Omar Alghabra first took office following the 2006 federal election to the 39th Parliament of Canada, then again in 2015 to the 42nd Parliament of Canada. When a Member of Parliament retired, Alghabra left General Electric to run as a Liberal candidate for Member of Parliament in the 2006 federal election in the riding of Mississauga—Erindale. He defeated Conservative candidate Bob Dechert by 3,328 votes. After that election, there was a Conservative Party minority government, led by Stephen Harper.

Alghabra was defeated in 2008, and then was elected again in 2015, and was re-elected in 2019. He served as parliamentary secretary to the minister of foreign affairs (Consular Affairs) from 2015 to 2018 and as parliamentary secretary to the minister of international trade diversification from 2018 to 2019. Alghabra was re-elected in the 2019 federal election. He was appointed as parliament secretary to the prime minister (Public Service Renewal) and parliament secretary to the deputy prime minister and minister of intergovernmental affairs.

He was also sworn in as a member of the Privy Council in February 2020. In the Cabinet reshuffle on January 12, 2021, Alghabra became the transport minister, succeeding Marc Garneau. Following a motion condemning Islamophobia amidst death threats to Muslim MPs, Alghabra stated that his primary concern was his staff who process these messages. He continued that it is important to have a conversation about Islamophobia and that he purposely does not delete comments received on his Facebook page.

Omar Alghabra attributes backlash against the motion to a campaign of misinformation and ignorance. As Parliament Secretary, Alghabra had a consular affairs file that oversaw 250,000 cases. He worked on the cases of John Ridsdel, Joshua Boyle and helped assist Canadians stranded by Hurricane Irma in the Caribbean. He was appointed Parliament Secretary to the Minister of International Trade Diversification and served from 2018 to 2019. Alghabra also served on the Standing Committee for International Trade.

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Alghabra was tasked with working directly with the victims’ families of the Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752. Alghabra stated that the government is offering legal assistance and exploring forms of interim compensation while they wait for proper compensation to be settled with Iran. Alghabra also announced that Ottawa will match funds raised during the Canada Strong campaign launched to raise $1.5 million for those who lost loved ones when the Ukrainian passenger plane was shot down by the Iranian military.

Who is Omar Alghabra wife?

Is Omar Alghabra married? The politician is currently single and hasn’t revealed his wife to the general public. Alghabra became Minister of Transport on January 12, 2021, following the resignation of industry minister Navdeep Bains, resulting in a Cabinet shuffle. As of 2022, Omar Alghabra has no wife or children.