Not sure if you recall, but his biography reads like a fantastic story. He became AG in 2004, just as my "trial" got started. A flurry of announcements followed, under the banner of "democratization" of the Justice system. Among them banning pit-bulls in the province, regulating paralegals, making it more difficult for self-represented defendants to act, procedural changes when using the Charter, etc. etc. The news releases could be found on the AG website, then they were deleted.
He also served as Minister of Economic Development.
Around that time I tried to gather more info on this guy, and in all his photos, all his interviews, he appeared to me as emotionally unstable. And yet the press loved him! They said that he's not a team player, that he's a bit violent, that he practices boxing almost daily, etc., but still they were highly admirative.
He is deposed only after making a stupid comment about "reverse-reaganism" or something like that, and offered Aboriginal Affairs.
Then he makes another headline-grabbing announcement and gives up that portfolio. Shortly thereafter, he gives a crazy speech, resuscitating Mussolini's fascist economic policies and then Mayor Miller gives him a plush job as rainmaker for Toronto, even though the City already had an entire agency doing the same job. Details were scarce, Miller saying only that Bryant's salary will be greater than his own..
Think about it for a second. The salary of some guy working for a city with major budget problems, who had just made an anti-business speech but is supposed to bring business to Toronto, is secret, but the taxpayer is paying for it..
He reminds me of Jesus - an awesome carpenter who never built anything, but convinced everyone to follow him. Including that poor cyclist :(

biografia sa parca-i o poveste fermecata:

A devenit Procuror General / Ministru al Justitiei in 2004, taman cand “procesul” meu kafkaesque incepea. Au urmat o gramada de anunturi, sub numele de “democratizare” a justitiei. Printre ele:

• interzicerea detinerii de pitbulls (niste catelusi mici care odata ce te musca nu-ti mai dau drumu’)
• regularea “paralegals” de catre LSUC (un “sindicat” al avocatilor). paralegals erau oameni care te puteau reprezenta intr-un proces fara a fi avocati si la un cost redus; noile reguli ii scot practic din joc pe acestia. ca urmare, salariile avocatilor cresc si o gramada de oameni incearca sa se apere singuri, nemaiputandu-si permite sa angajeze pe altcineva. aceasta “regulare” este fara precedent in Canada, nemaifiind practicata de nici o alta provincie.
• devine mai dificil pentru cei care apar in procese sa se apere singuri sau sa faca apel la Charter of Rights and Freedoms cand libertatile le sunt incalcate
• interzicerea pistoalelor, cu permis sau fara - a-nceput chiar un website - “No Gun, No Funeral” – (cand m-am uitat ultima data la cifre, Elvetia avea rate de posesie a armelor de foc de peste 80% si are una din cele mai reduse rate de criminalitate); inregistrarea armelor de foc este cea mai mare teapa din istoria Canadei, aceste “inregistrari” controversiale costand platitorul de taxe in general milioane de dolari, mai ceva decat autostrazile din Ro, si cu mai putine rezultate
• legea Stunt Driving – permite politiei confiscarea unei masini care merge prea repede, inainte de pronuntarea vreunei sentinte
• dupa ce face niste comentarii cretine contrazicandu-l direct pe prim-ministru in privinta politicii economice a provinciei, este pus in pozitia de ministru de afaceri aboriginale (ca doar avea experienta rasiala de cand cu pitbulls)
• nu-i place acolo si tine un speech in care baga frica in comunitatea de afaceri, anuntand ca a venit vremea nationalizarilor in masa (reverse-reaganism); renunta apoi la portofoliu, zicand printre altele ca nu se-ntelege cu ministrul federal (care, mirat, da un comunicat de presa spunand ca nici macar n-au stat de vorba); speech-ul pare sa imprumute din ideile fascismului italian sub Mussolini
• primarul Toronto, David Miller, ii ofera un job ca CEO al Invest Toronto, o corporatie "arm-length” adica autonoma, cu un salariu platit de contribuabil care este secret si este mai mare decat salariul primarului; menirea aceste corporatii este sa aduca investitii in Toronto, dar dubleaza o alta agentie municipala – asta intr-un oras care are deficite bugetare uriase si creste taxele de proprietate incontinuu
• David Miller este un idiot sinistru la fel de mare ca Bryant. A ajuns primar in urma unor declaratii demagogice ca va servi ca avocat pentru reciclare, pe langa guvernul provincial, si ca va mari numarul pistelor de biciclete intr-un oras dominat de masini. Nu numai ca asta nu s-a-ntamplat, dar din pricina unei greve a gunoierilor care a durat cateva luni, orasul s-a umplut de gunoaie..
• cand a fost dat jos din functia de AG, a aruncat in stanga si-n dreapta cu milioane de dolari. unul dintre recipientii marinimiei sale a fost o asociatie a armenilor, incalcand un vechi principiu al guvernului provincial de a nu sprijini asociatiile etnice