| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Prabmeet Sarkaria | |
| Office: | Ontario Minister of Transportation |
| Premier: | Doug Ford |
| Term Start: | September 4, 2023 |
| Predecessor: | Caroline Mulroney |
| Office1: | President of the Treasury Board of Ontario |
| Premier1: | Doug Ford |
| Term Start1: | June 18, 2021 |
| Term End1: | September 4, 2023 |
| Predecessor1: | Peter Bethlenfalvy |
| Successor1: | Caroline Mulroney |
| Office2: | Ontario Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction |
| Premier2: | Doug Ford |
| Term Start2: | June 20, 2019 |
| Term End2: | June 18, 2021 |
| Predecessor2: | Position established |
| Successor2: | Nina Tangri |
| Office3: | Parliamentary Assistant to the Solicitor General |
| Premier3: | Doug Ford |
| Term Start3: | April 4, 2019 |
| Term End3: | June 20, 2019 |
| Successor3: | Christine Hogarth and Belinda Karahalios |
| Office4: | Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services |
| Premier4: | Doug Ford |
| Term Start4: | June 7, 2018 |
| Term End4: | April 4, 2019 |
| Successor4: | Position abolished |
| Parliament5: | Ontario Provincial |
| Term Start5: | June 7, 2018 |
| Predecessor5: | Constituency established |
| Successor5: | Incumbent |
| Riding5: | Brampton South |
| Party: | Progressive Conservative |
| Birth Date: | 2 August 1988 |
| Birth Place: | Canada |
| Residence: | Brampton, Ontario |
| Alma Mater: | Wilfrid Laurier University (BBA) University of Windsor (JD) |
Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has been the Ontario minister of transportation since 2023. He has sat as the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Brampton South since 2018, representing the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party.
Sarkaria was previously the associate minister of red tape reduction from 2019 to 2021 and president of the Treasury Board of Ontario from 2021 to 2023. Sarkaria is the first turban-wearing Sikh to be appointed to cabinet.
Sarkaria was born in Orangeville, Ontario.[1] Sarkaria’s parents immigrated from Punjab, India in the 1980s. His father drove a taxi and mother worked in a factory until they later became small business owners, after purchasing an inn outside of Orangeville.[2]
Sarkaria attended Wilfrid Laurier University, where he completed a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, majoring in finance. He worked in at TD Securities, before attending law school at the University of Windsor.[3] He worked at Miller Thomson as an associate corporate lawyer until his election.[4] [5]
Before entering provincial politics, Sarkaria served on the City of Brampton’s Property Standards Committee, and was an organizer for the annual Hockey for Humanity tournament. He was also the former Ontario Vice President of the World Sikh Organization, an organization that advocates for the Sikh community diaspora.[6]
Sarkaria lives in Brampton, Ontario, with his wife, Sarpreet, who works for Loblaw as a senior merchandising analyst. Sarkaria's daughter, Deyva, was born in May 2020.
Sarkaria was nominated to be the PC Party candidate for Brampton South on December 8, 2016.[6] Sarkaria is the first turban-wearing Sikh to be appointed to cabinet.[7]
Prior to his appointment as a minister, Sarkaria was the chair of the Select Committee on Financial Transparency and also served on the Standing Committee on Justice Policy. He also previously served as the parliamentary assistant to the solicitor general (formerly known as the minister of community safety and correctional services).[8]
He stepped down as the parliamentary assistant to the solicitor general on June 20, 2019 when he was appointed to the Executive Council of Ontario as the associate minister of small business and red tape reduction.