Editing Navdeep Bains (section)

== Recognition ==
''[[The Hill Times]]'' featured Bains on the cover of their ''Power & Influence'' magazine in 2017. Dubbed the ‘Minister of Everything’ in the article, he was ranked 4th most influential, behind Justin Trudeau, [[Katie Telford]] and [[Gerald Butts]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 8, 2017|title=The Top 100: Navdeep Bains, the 'minister of everything'|url=https://www.hilltimes.com/2017/02/08/top-100-navdeep-bains-minister-everything/95473|access-date=February 22, 2017|website=The Hill Times}}</ref> On April 7, 2017, CFIB's Executive Vice-President and Chief Strategic Officer Laura Jones<ref>{{Cite news|title=Laura Jones on Twitter|language=en|url=https://twitter.com/CFIBideas/status/850387139703574528|url-status=live|access-date=August 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117161445/https://pbs.twimg.com/hashflag/config-2020-11-17-16.json|archive-date=November 17, 2020|via=Twitter}}</ref> presented Bains with a Golden Scissors Award"<ref>{{Cite web|title=Laura Jones {{!}} CFIB|url=https://www.cfib-fcei.ca/en/node/1087|access-date=August 18, 2018|website=www.cfib-fcei.ca|language=en}}</ref> as a symbolic gesture of cutting through red tape shortly after Bains announced the interprovincial legislation entitled the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA). He is a recipient of Startup Canada's Policy Prize (2017). In 2017, Bains was listed in ''The Globe and Mail''<nowiki/>'s The Power 50.<ref>{{Cite news|title=The 50 most powerful people in Canadian business|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/the-power-50-most-influential-canadian-business/article34804742/|access-date=August 17, 2018}}</ref> He is featured as the second influencer on the 2018 Bay Street Bull Power 50 list,<ref>{{Cite news|date=June 13, 2018|title=The 2018 Bay Street Bull Power 50 - Bay Street Bull|language=en-US|work=Bay Street Bull|url=http://www.baystbull.com/the-2018-bay-street-bull-power-50/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190625214938/https://www.baystbull.com/the-2018-bay-street-bull-power-50/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=June 25, 2019|access-date=August 18, 2018}}</ref> and Apolitical listed him among the World's 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government.<ref>{{Cite news|title=World's 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government|language=en-US|work=Apolitical|url=https://apolitical.co/lists/digital-government-world100/|access-date=August 18, 2018}}</ref>