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Zap! columnist Taleeb Noormohamed has
sights set on law school and political career

HE WRITES a youth column for.the North Shore News,
plans to go to an Ivy League school, currently attends a
private schoo] in Vancouver and says he will become a
lawyer and then, you guessed it, a politician.

And he’s only 15.

Taleeb Noormohamed has also
been nominated for a national
award by the Canada 125
organization.

He is anything but modest when
describing his achievements and
current activities.

“Hm the youth chairman for
the young Liberais in my riding
(West Vancouver-Garibaldi). 1
debate. I'm ranked in the top five
of ali of the bilingual debaters in
B.C,

“I was selected to be part of a
national student’s commission,
and we presented a report to the
Governor General,’’ says Noor-
mohamed.

So what political philosophies
does this budding politician
believe in?

“{ don’t believe in ultra-left-
wing policies or ultra-right-wing
policies.”

As he munches on some
McDonald’s_ cookies, Noor-
mohamed explains he is serious
about the future direction of his
life, which he already appears to
have mapped out.

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

And he doesn’t just want to be
any politician; he’s eyeing 24
Sussex Dr.

“This may not sound nice, but
I want to go to an Ivy League
school and be called to the bar.

“I would like to run for public
office at some point. But I don’t
want to be prime minister just to
be powerful.”’

His father is an architect, and
he was born in Ottawa before the
family moved to Boston, Mass.

They have lived in West Van-
couver for the past six ycars, and
he now attends St. George’s
private school in Vancouver.

But there’s more to Noor-
mohamed than just iaw and poli-
tics. He’s also a big fan of North
Shore rocker Bryan Adams, and,
in his Sept. 4 column in the News’
Zap! section, he took aim at the
Vancouver Parks Board for not
allowing a free Adams concert to
be held ia Stanley Park.

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had planned to make a day of it,
picnic baskets and all.

“It {concert) seemed like a
dream at the time and, thanks to
the Vancouver Parks Board, that’s
all it will be,’’. wrote Noor-
mohamed. Lote

Read between the lines and you
might be able to imagine him
directing similar criticism, but on
a national topic, from the Opposi-
tion benches in the House of
Commons to the prime minister
himself.

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