Yasir Naqvi今年44岁。应该是至少16年前法学院毕业。
Yasir Abbas Naqvi (
Urdu: یاسر عباس نقوی)
MPP (born c. 1973) is a
Pakistani-Canadian politician in
Ontario,
Canada. He is the current
Attorney General of Ontario, current
Government House Leader, and a
Liberal member of the
Legislative Assembly of Ontario who was elected in 2007. He represents the riding of
Ottawa Centre. He was also the President of the
Ontario Liberal Party. He is a member of the
Ontario cabinet in the government of
Kathleen Wynne.
Naqvi was born and raised in
Karachi,
Pakistan and immigrated to Canada with his family in 1988 at the age of 15 after his father was arrested for leading a pro-democracy march.
[1][2] Naqvi settled in the
Niagara Falls, Ontario-area and attended
McMaster University and the
University of Ottawa Law School. He was called to the Bar in Ontario in 2001 and began practising in international trade law at
Lang Michener LLP, eventually becoming a partner.
[2] He left Lang Michener in 2007 to join the
Centre for Trade Policy and Law at
Carleton University. He was President of the Liberal Party of Ontario.
[3]
The
Ottawa Citizen named Naqvi as one of its "People to Watch in 2010", with a profile in the 9 January 2010 Saturday Observer headlined "Yasir Naqvi, he's a firecracker".
[4] Ottawa Life magazine also included him in its Tenth Annual "Top 50 People in the Capital" list for 2010.
[1] In a September 2011 column, Adam Radwanski of
The Globe and Mail called Naqvi "possibly the hardest-working constituency MPP in the province."
[5]
Prior to entering politics he volunteered with a number of community associations including the Centretown Community Health Centre and the Ottawa Food Bank.
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