Peter Kent
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The Honourable Peter Kent PC MP |
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| Official Opposition Critic for Foreign Affairs | |
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Assumed office July 13, 2016 |
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| Leader | Rona Ambrose |
| Preceded by | Tony Clement |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Thornhill |
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Assumed office October 14, 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Susan Kadis |
| Minister of the Environment | |
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In office November 4, 2011 – July 15, 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Stephen Harper |
| Preceded by | John Baird |
| Succeeded by | Leona Aglukkaq |
| Chair of the Standing Committee on National Defence |
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In office October 29, 2013 – February 4, 2016 |
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| Minister |
Rob Nicholson Jason Kenney |
| Preceded by | James Bezan |
| Succeeded by | Robert Nault |
| Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development | |
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Assumed office February 4, 2016 |
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| Minister | Stephane Dion |
| Personal details | |
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July 27, 1943 Sussex, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Cilla Kent |
| Children | Trilby Kent |
| Residence | Thornhill, Ontario, Canada |
| Profession | News editor |
Peter Kent, PC, MP (born July 27, 1943) is a Conservative member of parliament for the riding of Thornhill, and the former Minister of the Environment in the 28th Canadian Ministry. Before entering politics, he was Deputy Editor of the Global Television Network, a Canadian TV network. He has worked as a news editor, producer, foreign correspondent and news anchorman on Canadian and American television networks.
Kent was born in Sussex, England in a Canadian Army Hospital. Both parents serving with the Canadian Army. The family moved to Canada and, after a period in Ottawa, settled in Medicine Hat, Alberta. His parents were Aileen and Parker Kent (both now deceased). The elder Kent was a long-time employee of the Southam Newspaper Group who retired as associate editor of the Calgary Herald. Peter Kent's younger brother, Arthur, is also a journalist, known in the first Gulf War as the "scud stud". There were three sisters, Adele and Norma and Susan. The latter, a book editor and writer, died in 2014.
Peter Kent is married to Cilla, a former print journalist with South Africa's Argus newspaper group (a Cape Town paper now part of the Irish-based Independent News & Media) for over 26 years. They have a daughter, Trilby, who published her first novel, Medina Hill, in October 2009.
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