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: ''This article is about the politician. For the actor, see Gerard Kennedy (actor).'' Gerard Michael Kennedy (born July 24, 1960) is a Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as Ontario's Minister of Education from 2003 to 2006, when he resigned to make an unsuccessful bid for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada. Kennedy previously ran for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party, losing to former premier Dalton McGuinty on the final ballot. He lost the 2012 Ontario Liberal leadership race. While attending the University of Alberta in Edmonton, he became involved in the local food bank, eventually becoming its first executive director in 1983. In 1986, he moved to Toronto to run the Daily Bread Food Bank and did so until he entered politics, in 1996. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as an Ontario Liberal Party Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in a 1996 by-election to replace former premier Bob Rae in the York South constituency. In the 1999 and 2003 general elections, he was elected to represent the new Parkdale—High Park constituency. He became the province's Minister of Education in 2003, serving in McGuinty's first government. In 2006, he resigned his cabinet post and then his legislative seat to seek the federal Liberal Party's leadership. He finished third in delegate selection meetings, but at the leadership convention, he placed fourth on both the first and second ballot before withdrawing to support eventual winner Stéphane Dion. In the 2008 federal election he ran for the Liberal Party of Canada in the Parkdale—High Park electoral district and was elected as its Member of Parliament (MP). He ran for re-election in the 2011 federal election, but lost to former MP, Peggy Nash. ==Background== Kennedy is one of six children born to Jack and Caroline Kennedy (née Shemanski).〔(Carrie_Kennedy ) '' Caroline Kennedy passed away at her home at Clearwater Lake, MB, on October 11, 2009 at the age of 73〕 Kennedy's father, descendant from Scottish ancestry originating in Cape Breton Island and the Ottawa Valley, ran a gas supply business in The Pas, Manitoba, eventually becoming that town's mayor.〔 His mother's ancestry was Ukrainian, and her family lived in Canada's Prairie region.〔 At age 14, Kennedy moved to Winnipeg to attended St. John's-Ravenscourt School on a hockey scholarship.〔 After high school, he attended Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, also on a hockey scholarship.〔 When Trent's hockey program was cancelled, Kennedy switched education institutions and attended the University of Alberta to continue his undergraduate studies, but left in his fourth year, without completing his degree.〔 He then worked as a historical researcher for the Government of Alberta in the early 1980s.〔 He began his social activism career when he directed the volunteer program at an Edmonton Food Bank in 1983.〔 After moving to Ontario, Kennedy was the executive director of Toronto's ''Daily Bread Food Bank'' from 1986 to 1996.〔 The food bank distributed $30 million worth of food each year without government funding; 150,000 people are estimated to have used its services every month.〔 Kennedy was named in ''Toronto Life'' Magazine's list of fifty influential people in 1992, and was named newsmaker of the year by the ''Toronto Star'' in 1993. Kennedy was also given an honourable mention in the ''Financial Post Magazines C.E.O. awards in 1995. Kennedy is married to Jeanette Arsenault-Kennedy, a day care professional and Acadian (Francophone) from Prince Edward Island.〔 They have two children, daughter Théria and son John-Julien. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gerard Kennedy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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