The Citizen of the Year award honours an individual who has given long-standing and exceptional community service towards making Surrey a better place to live.
Bal grew up and studied in the Surrey region. At 19, he got his realtor’s license, and by 22-23 he had his own real estate brokerage.
2016 was a year where we saw the Defence Minister take up important issues affecting the country and its people and bravely and fairly finding measures to deal with them.
A successful entrepreneur, well-known personality in the South Asian community and beyond, and a philanthropist – Dave Mann, founder of Isle of Mann Construction Ltd. and Mannkind Charitable Society, is known by many names.
Each initiative of Vikram Vij has been better than the last – the recent one being his association with Air Canada and the introduction of his food on their Vancouver to New Delhi flights.
Umang Khandelwal has been playing a key role in highlighting the issues Canadian youth face in the country and has been working towards finding solutions to these issues.