Ex-Ontario House leader Naqvi will take procedural bonafides to the Commons

Along with his time as House leader, the Liberal MP-elect served under the Wynne government as Ontario’s attorney general, minister of community safety and correctional services, and as labour minister.

Liberal MP-elect Yasir Naqvi is pictured speaking to reporters following his election victory in Ottawa Centre, Ont., on Sept. 20. The Hill Times photograph by Cynthia Münster

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BY NEIL MOSS

September 22, 2021

When the Queen's Park veteran officially arrives in the House of Commons, Liberal MP-elect Nasir Yaqvi hopes to use his familiarity with parliamentary procedure to help manage the twists and turns of life in a minority Parliament. From 2014 to 2018, Mr. Naqvi—who defeated NDP challenger Angella M...

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