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Kevin Aylward (born August 24, 1960) is a Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He has served as leader of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador from August 14, 2011 until January 3, 2012. Aylward was first elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly in the 1985 election and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Clyde Wells, Brian Tobin, Beaton Tulk and Roger Grimes. Aylward did not seek re-election in the 2003 election. Upon the resignation of Liberal leader Yvonne Jones on August 9, 2011, 62 days before the provincial election, Aylward ran in the leadership race to succeed her. Five days after Jones' resignation Aylward was chosen as party leader in a field of seven candidates.〔 On October 26, 2011, he resigned as leader after failing to win the district of St. George's-Stephenville East in the 2011 provincial election. ==Politics== Aylward was first elected as a Member of the House of Assembly (MHA) in the 1985 provincial election. He held several cabinet portfolios in the 1990s and early 2000s, including Environment and Labour, Forest Resources and Agrifoods, Tourism, Culture and Recreation, and Environment. Aylward was one of the seven politicians who sat on the province’s Internal Economy Commission (IEC) in 2000. During that time, the IEC decided to remove the auditor general from auditing the House of Assembly’s financial records and allowed MHA expense claims to be approved without full documentation. This decision, which was reversed under the Progressive Conservative government several years later, led to a spending scandal that saw millions of public dollars misused and led to jail time for four former MHAs, and a businessman. In 2007, auditor general John Noseworthy announced that Aylward had made inappropriate personal claims with his constituency allowance. Aylward claimed $618 for tickets to a Juno Awards ceremony, as well as $4,419 in airfare for his children. 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「Kevin Aylward」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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