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Jasbir Singh Cheema is a Canadian television personality and politician.
In the 2004 federal election, he won the candidate nomination for the Conservative Party of Canada defeating Chuck Cadman, the sitting Member of Parliament for the riding of Surrey North, but Cadman ran and won as an independent candidate.
Cheema anchored the Punjabi newscast on Vancouver television station Channel M now Omni Television from 2003 until 2004.
Cheema was a regular columnist on Real Estate and Economy with the Asian Star newspaper writing extensively on Real Estate and Economy between Sep 2008 to May 2011. He is a full-time realtor and is a recipient of President Award from Sutton Group Medallion Realty in 2006. Cheema servedas a Government Relations Liaison with the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (FVREB) for three terms since 2010 and served on the Education Committee of the FVREB in 2009 - 2010. He twice represented FVREB for Government Liaison (GL) Days in Victoria, British Columbia, in April 2010 and April 2012. Cheema also represented FVREB during Canadian Real Estate Association sponsored PAC (Political Action Committee) days from May 7–9, 2011 in Ottawa, capital of Canada.