Michael Bryant (politician):
Michael J. Bryant (born 1966 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of St. Paul's for the Ontario Liberal Party, and is the Minister of Economic Development and Government House Leader in the government of Dalton McGuinty.
Bryant 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. While an undergraduate, he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He graduated as in 1992 from Osgoode Hall Law School with an LL.B. 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 at the University of 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.
Bryant was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1999, defeating incumbent Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Isabel Bassett in St. Paul's by almost 5,000 votes (he had previously defeated Kathleen Wynne at the Liberal Party's nomination meeting, 328 votes to 143). The Progressive Conservatives won the election, and Bryant served as his party's Critic to the Attorney General for the next four years.
He was re-elected by a greater majority in the provincial election of 2003. The Liberals won a majority government in this election, and Bryant was appointed Ontario Attorney General and Minister with responsibility for Native Affairs and Democratic Renewal.
Bryant was appointed as Minister of Aboriginal Affairs following a cabinet shuffle on October 30, 2007. On September 18, 2008[1], he became Minister of Economic Development, replacing Sandra Pupatello.
Bryant, his wife Susan Abramovitch, an entertainment lawyer, and their two children, live in his midtown Toronto riding of St. Paul's.
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