Gerard Kennedy
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"Gerard Michael Kennedy" is a politics of Canada/Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as Ontario's Ministry of Education (Ontario)/Minister of Education from 2003 to 2006, when he resigned to make an unsuccessful bid for the Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, 2006/leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada. Kennedy previously ran for the Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, 1996/leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party, losing to former Premier of Ontario/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.

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For victims out there, there's going to be new help, ... The main thing for them is for them to feel that there is somebody on their side that understands what they're going through.

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It is not inevitable that our schools have incidents like this. We can make our schools even safer.

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Bullying is an underestimated and pervasive problem.

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The public should know the board has met a high standard in their (hiring) process, ... We appreciate their cooperation with us and their efforts to ensure the best professional educational leadership possible for their students, staff and community.

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Every serious incident obviously tells us that we need to be doing better.

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There's a tremendous amount of effort being focused on that end and we will be making it even more effective because we can't rest as long as incidents like that are taking place in any of our schools.

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There has been a perception that the Safe Schools Act provisions (have) uniform application across the province.

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The initial letter came to the emergency measures organization, and there were things being looked into, and those were the kinds of things that went on ? that was the responsibility of a different minister.

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Parents have a right to be skeptical.

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