Yes i am not a fan of this guy at all!
I hope he can serve the people well but i bet not!!!
He has an ego!
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Peter Kent
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MPMember of the
Canadian Parliamentfor
ThornhillIncumbentAssumed office
2008 federal electionPreceded by
Susan KadisBorn
July 27, 1943 (1943-07-27) (age 65)
Sussex,
United KingdomPolitical party
ConservativeSpouse
Cilla Kent
Children
Trilby Kent
Profession
news editor
Peter Kent (born
July 27,
1943) is
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Americas) in the Canadian Cabinet. Previously, he was Deputy Editor of
Global Television News, a
Canadian TV network. He has previously worked as a news editor, producer, foreign correspondent and news anchor on Canadian and American television networks.
In the
Canadian federal election, 2008 on
October 14,
2008, he ran for the
Conservative Party of Canada and was elected as the
member of parliament for the riding of
Thornhill and on October 30, 2008 was named Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Americas).
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1 Journalism career2 Awards3 Political career4 Family5 References6 External links//
[
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Kent began his career as a radio journalist in the early 1960s. He then moved to television, joining
Calgary station
CFCN in 1965 and subsequently worked for
CBC Television,
CTV, Global,
NBC and the
Christian Science Monitor's television newscast.
In the 1966, he went to
South East Asia to cover the
Vietnam War as a freelance
foreign correspondent. He stayed on to cover the final withdrawal of US troops from
Vietnam in 1973 and covered the fall of
Cambodia to the
Khmer Rouge in 1975.
[1] Kent returned to Canada and worked as a producer for
The National and, in 1976, he became the broadcast's
anchor after
Lloyd Robertson moved to
CTV News.
In 1978 Kent agreed to step down as anchor of
The National after he submitted an intervention to the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) recommending that the Corporation's licence not be renewed until management created procedures and protocols to prevent political interference in the CBC's editorial decision-making. Kent's complaint involved messages conveyed through the then CBC President
Al Johnson from the
Prime Minister's Office that resulted in cancellation of a speech by Premier
René Lévesque and coverage of a speech by Prime Minister
Pierre Trudeau. As a result of his intervention and descent from The National anchor desk, Kent accepted assignment to the newly created African Bureau of the CBC, located in Johannesburg.
The CBC subsequently created protocols to govern Prime Ministerial access to the public broadcaster. They remain in effect today; the most recent example the speech made to the country by Prime Minister
Jean Chrétien on the eve of the
1995 Quebec referendum. Kent returned briefly in 1978 to testify at a grievance hearing initiated by an unsuccessful anchor candidate who complained that
Knowlton Nash, the vice-president of CBC News, had appointed himself to succeed Kent. In that testimony Kent -- the first journalist to anchor The National -- supported Nash's credentials.
Kent returned to Canada and the CBC in 1982 as a founding producer, correspondent and occasional co-host of
The Journal, hosted by
Barbara Frum and
Mary Lou Finlay.
In 1984 Kent moved back to NBC serving in Miami, Washington and New York bureaus and as the US network's senior
European correspondent in the late 1980s, winning four
Emmy nominations with the network. He then reported for and was back-up anchor for John Hart and John Palmer at the
Christian Science Monitor's World Monitor television news service. One of Kent's feature report series - on challenges in American inner cities - was awarded the
Robert F. Kennedy Award.
Kent returned to Canada to join Global News in 1992, and was the anchor of its flagship news program
First National until 2001. He then anchored the business news show MoneyWise on Global and
Prime.
[
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Kent was named the recipient of the 2006 President’s Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada (RTNDA). The President’s Award is presented annually to honour individuals, stations, companies or groups who have brought distinction to, or have made major contributions to the broadcast news industry. Kent is a member of Canada’s Broadcast Hall of Fame, former director of the
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, four-time
Emmy nominee and the recipient of the
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award.
[
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In the
Canadian federal election, 2006, Kent ran as the
Conservative Party of Canada candidate in the
Toronto riding of
St. Paul's. He placed second with 25.76% of the vote against the incumbent,
Carolyn Bennett of the
Liberals (50.25%), and ahead of
Paul Summerville of the
New Democratic Party (19.19%).
Peter Kent has been elected as the
member of parliament in the Toronto riding of
Thornhill, as a
Conservative Member of Parliament, in the
40th Canadian federal election.
[2]Kent is a member of the board of
Canadian Coalition for Democracies[3] and has represented them at public events such as a demonstration supporting publication of the controversial
Muhammed cartoons.
[4]Kent is a member of the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame and a past member of the Board of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. He is also a Founding Supporter of Canadians for Defence and Security and a member of the board of the revitalized ParticipACTION.
He is a board member of
Honest Reporting Canada, and co-Chair of Ontario Cabinet for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
[
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Peter Kent is the son of
Parker Kent, a long-time employee of the Southam Newspaper Group who retired as associate editor at the
Calgary Herald. His younger brother,
Arthur Kent, is also a journalist, known in the first Gulf War as the "scud stud".
Kent has been married to Cilla, a former print journalist with South Africa's Argus group for over 26 years. They have a daughter, Trilby who works as a freelance journalist and writer in Brussels.
[
edit] References
^ Peter Kent biography, accessed January 9, 2008
^ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/riding/196/^ Goodard, John, "PM's new recruit urged to clarify views", Toronto Star, January 8, 2007
^ "Toronto marchers back right to publish Muhammad cartoons", CBC News, March 11, 2006, retrieved March 11, 2008
[
edit] External links
Peter KentParliament of Canada biographyRetrieved from "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kent"
Mellissa Fung was on her second tour as a journalist in Afghanistan when she was abducted. She was previously based in Regina and is seen here reporting from Beijing during the Summer Olympics in AFungt. (CBC) 
