Gerard Kennedy
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 Gerard Kennedy facts

• 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 future premier Dalton McGuinty on the final ballot
• He lost the 2013 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