{"id":108403,"date":"2019-01-23T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mosaicedition.ca\/?p=108403"},"modified":"2019-01-23T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T22:20:13","slug":"yasir-naqvi-appointed-ceo-of-the-institute-for-canadian-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mosaicedition.ca\/fr\/2019\/01\/23\/yasir-naqvi-appointed-ceo-of-the-institute-for-canadian-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Yasir Naqvi appointed CEO of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>TORONTO, January 23, 2019<\/strong>\u2014Thirty\n years after immigrating to Canada at the age of 15, Yasir Naqvi has \nbeen named CEO of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC). \nPro-democracy advocates, Yasir\u2019s family emigrated from Pakistan to \nCanada in 1988. Inspired by his parents, Yasir spent the past 11 years \nserving as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing\n a diverse community in Ottawa. In 2016, he was sworn in as the Attorney\n General of Ontario. Educated at McMaster University, University of \nOttawa Faculty of Law, and Carleton University, Yasir was called to the \nBar in Ontario in 2001 and went on to practise international trade and \nadministrative law with major law firms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yasir has marked our idea of citizenship in multiple ways. While Attorney General of Ontario, he implemented the&nbsp;<em>All Families Are Equal Act<\/em>to\n ensure that all children are treated equally, regardless of how they \nare conceived, and recognize the legal status of all parents. He also \nchampioned new laws to prevent sexual violence and help survivors, \nincrease respect for the rights and cultures of Indigenous peoples, \nexpand access to restorative justice, and promote multiculturalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n ICC is Canada\u2019s leading citizenship organization and the world\u2019s \nforemost voice on citizenship and inclusion. Its national grassroots \nprograms include the Cultural Access Pass, the only program of its kind \nin the world, and Building Citizenship, which organizes its acclaimed \ncommunity citizenship ceremonies. Its cutting-edge Ideas &amp; Insights \nprogram is redefining how we talk about diversity and belonging. The ICC\n is the convenor of 6&nbsp;Degrees, an international conversation on \nimmigration, refugees, diversity, and citizenship. Based in Toronto, \n6&nbsp;Degrees has taken place in cities across Canada, as well as in \nThe&nbsp;Netherlands, Germany, and Switzerland. 6&nbsp;Degrees now has its \nEuropean hub in Berlin, will soon be taking place in Mexico City, and \nwill be back in Calgary on March 14, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO, January 23, 2019\u2014Thirty years after immigrating to Canada at the age of 15, Yasir Naqvi has been named CEO of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC). Pro-democracy advocates, Yasir\u2019s family emigrated from Pakistan to Canada in 1988. Inspired by his parents, Yasir spent the past 11 years serving as a member of the Legislative <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54,69],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosaicedition.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosaicedition.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosaicedition.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosaicedition.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosaicedition.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mosaicedition.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108404,"href":"https:\/\/mosaicedition.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108403\/revisions\/108404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosaicedition.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosaicedition.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosaicedition.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}