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I get very emotional when I talk about my parents. I don’t think that I would ever have had the strength of character to do what they did. Our heritage is Indian, but my parents were born in Africa. They lived very comfortable lives in Africa. They had my sister in London, in Wimbledon, and then they came back to Africa, and had me. In 1972, Idi Amin decided that Asian Ugandans were no longer welcome in Uganda. So he kicked them all out. They were given very little time to leave with whatever they could take. So my parents jumped on a plane and they came to Canada, because the prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, said, we’ll keep it open until every last Asian Ugandan is through that door.
It’s funny, no one really knows the full extent of the relationship between Pierre Trudeau and the Aga Khan. But there was an affinity between Canada and Ismailis — they’re a sect of Muslims, the Shi’ite category, very liberal minded.
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