Srilanka, May 14 -- Tamil Canadian MP Gary Anandasangaree has been appointed today as the Minister of Public Safety in Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's new Cabinet.

He is the son of TULF senior V. Ananda Sangaree.

Anandasangaree will oversee key agencies tasked with Canada's national security, including the Canada Border Services Agency, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

He previously served as the Minister of Justice and Attorney General - the first Tamil-Canadian to do so - under Carney's first Cabinet in March. He held this role alongside that of Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, to which he was appointed under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's final...