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华裔议员挥舞拳头用中文高喊"祖国万岁"的肯尼(Jason Kenney),已经成功当选阿省保守党党领
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Kenney was born in Oakville, Ontario, the son of Lynne (née Tunbridge) and Robert Martin Kenney, a fighter pilot and teacher, who was of Irish heritage.[5][6] He was raised in Wilcox, Saskatchewan. He is the grandson of jazz musician and big band leader Mart Kenney.[7]' F" h! t3 F0 _5 m8 c' A
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He went to high school in Wilcox, Saskatchewan, at the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, a private Catholic high school, known for its Notre Dame Hounds Hockey. He then studied philosophy at the University of San Francisco, a Jesuit university in San Francisco, California. He left university without graduating to begin work for the Saskatchewan Liberal Party.[8] He was "very involved in the young Liberals" as a young man, and in 1988 served as executive assistant to Ralph Goodale, who at the time was leader of the party.[9] But as a university student, he says he began "studying political theory, classical political theory and started reading much more broadly and realized my values were essentially Conservative."[9] Not long after, in 1989, Kenney was hired as the first executive director of the Alberta Taxpayers Association, which advocated for fiscal responsibility. In 1990, Kenney was named president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, a national organisation that scrutinises governmental expenditures., d2 ^9 \! M" |+ H$ H: e( Q
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