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| Nicholas Katalifos meets Victor Soussana and Georges Ouaknine. |
One
of the many reaons why Jean-Claude Gobé is favored to win the race to
become the City of Laval's mayor is because of the quality of candidates
he has chosen. Such is the case in the St. Martin District, where well
known educator and community organizer Nicholas Katalifos is seeking his
first shot at elected office.
I
have known Nick for many years and I would need more than two hands
to count the number of times I encouraged him to take the leap into municipal politics as I did
eight years ago in Côte Saint-Luc. I wish him well and must say I am
impressed with the efforts he is putting into the campaign for his
Action Laval team.
Earlier
this week I was having my haircut by Georges Ouaknine at Inter Coupe
Monsieur on Decarie. Nick was driving towards the West End at the time
and when I told him Georges lived in Laval and within the confines of
his district, he dropped in to shake hands and accept the encouragement
of Georges to visit the local Sephardic synagogue. Georges and his boss
Victor Soussana, whose brother-in-law Maurice Cohen is a borough
councillor in St. Laurent, were most impressed.
Nick will make an outstanding councillor. I am sure his future constituents will be able to see this the moment they meet him.
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