Yasir Naqvi
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The Honourable Yasir Naqvi MPP |
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| Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Ottawa Centre |
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Assumed office 10 October 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Richard Patten |
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| Born | 1973 (age 43–44) Karachi, Pakistan |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Christine McMillan (m. 2012) |
| Children | 1 |
| Residence | Ottawa, Ontario |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Yasir Abbas Naqvi MPP (born c. 1973) is a Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. He is the current Attorney General of Ontario 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. 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 and eventually became a partner. 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.
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".Ottawa Life magazine also included him in its Tenth Annual "Top 50 People in the Capital" list for 2010. In a September 2011 column, Adam Radwanski of The Globe and Mail called Naqvi "possibly the hardest-working constituency MPP in the province."
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