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Michael J. Bryant (born April 13, 1966) is a former public administrator and former politician in Ontario, Canada. A Harvard-trained lawyer, he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the electoral district of St. Paul's for the Ontario Liberal Party from 1999 until 2009. He served until May 25, 2009, as a member of Dalton McGuinty's provincial cabinet, first as Attorney General, being the province's youngest-ever to hold that post, and subsequently as Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, Minister of Economic Development and Government House Leader. He currently works as a principal with Ishkonigan Consulting & Mediation. Bryant left provincial politics to take up the newly created post of chief executive officer of ''Invest Toronto'', an agency owned and operated by the City of Toronto with a mandate to attract investment to the municipality and facilitate economic development.〔 After an altercation with a cyclist on August 31, 2009, Bryant was charged with criminal negligence causing death and dangerous driving causing death. Days later he resigned as CEO of Invest Toronto, while maintaining that he was innocent of the charges. On May 25, 2010, all charges against Bryant were withdrawn, with prosecutors describing the cyclist as the aggressor in the incident. ==Background== Bryant was raised in the Greater Victoria area of British Columbia, where his father Ray was mayor of Esquimalt from 1966 to 1969. Known for his "pugnacious streak," he trained as a boxer from childhood. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia in 1988, and a Master's Degree from the same institution in 1989. Bryant was also a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity at UBC.〔 He graduated as in 1992 from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto with a law degree.〔 and was the silver medalist of his year.〔 He then earned an LL.M. ''magna cum laude'' from Harvard Law School in 1994. Bryant is a Fulbright Fellow. He clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada in 1992-93, and was later a lawyer at the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City, as well as lecturing in law at King's College London in England, and practicing litigation at McCarthy Tétrault.〔 In 1997, he became an adjunct professor in international law at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.〔 In December 2009, he returned to the private practice of law and joined Norton Rose LLP (formerly Ogilvy Renault) as Senior Advisor and was involved with commercial and investment matters relating to energy, cleantech, natural resources and infrastructure/public-private partnerships.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nortonrose.com/people/42677/Michael-Bryant )〕 In 2012 he moved to the Ishkonigan, a consulting and mediation firm owned by Phil Fontaine, where he accepted a position as a principal.〔 Bryant was married to Susan Abramovitch, an entertainment lawyer, and they have two children, Sadie and Louis. The couple separated in December 2010.〔〔 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「Michael Bryant (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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