A night that began with a dinner to celebrate his eleventh wedding anniversary ended in a jail cell for Michael Bryant. He was charged with dangerous driving causing death and criminal negligence causing the death of cyclist Darcy Sheppard. Ironically, he had helped write the legal test for the same charges sixteen years earlier. Bryant, as Ontario's attorney general, was the man responsible for administering 500,000 criminal charges every year in that province. He now faced prosecution by the same justice system. The charges were eventually dropped, but nothing could undo what had happened to Sheppard-or Bryant.
Review
"The story that fate handed [the author, Michael Bryant] on an unsavoury platter is not merely the stuff of fiction, it is the stuff of the greatest moral dramas in the literary canon. ... By chastening him so thoroughly, by forcing him to bare his soul so openly, his angels have transformed him from a callow opportunist into one of Canada's most compelling political figures. And a pretty good writer to boot." John Barber, Globe & Mail "a moving description of a painful yet wholesome path from hubris to humility." Dow Marmur, Toronto Star Goodreads: 53 ratings, 15 Reviews, 94% liked.
About the Author
Michael Bryant was Ontario’s youngest attorney general. A Harvard trained lawyer, he was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 until 2009. He also served as minister of Aboriginal Affairs, minister of Economic Development, and government house leader. He is currently a visiting professor at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Description:
A night that began with a dinner to celebrate his eleventh wedding anniversary ended in a jail cell for Michael Bryant. He was charged with dangerous driving causing death and criminal negligence causing the death of cyclist Darcy Sheppard. Ironically, he had helped write the legal test for the same charges sixteen years earlier. Bryant, as Ontario's attorney general, was the man responsible for administering 500,000 criminal charges every year in that province. He now faced prosecution by the same justice system. The charges were eventually dropped, but nothing could undo what had happened to Sheppard-or Bryant.
Review
"The story that fate handed [the author, Michael Bryant] on an unsavoury platter is not merely the stuff of fiction, it is the stuff of the greatest moral dramas in the literary canon. ... By chastening him so thoroughly, by forcing him to bare his soul so openly, his angels have transformed him from a callow opportunist into one of Canada's most compelling political figures. And a pretty good writer to boot." John Barber, Globe & Mail
"a moving description of a painful yet wholesome path from hubris to humility." Dow Marmur, Toronto Star
Goodreads: 53 ratings, 15 Reviews, 94% liked.
About the Author
Michael Bryant was Ontario’s youngest attorney general. A Harvard trained lawyer, he was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 until 2009. He also served as minister of Aboriginal Affairs, minister of Economic Development, and government house leader. He is currently a visiting professor at Osgoode Hall Law School.