Education and Early Life
Kenney was born in Oakville, Ontario and raised in Saskatchewan. He is the grandson of musical band leader Mart Kenney. He graduated from the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, a Catholic, co-educational, boarding high school located in Wilcox, Saskatchewan.
He studied philosophy at the St. Ignatius Institute of the University of San Francisco, a Jesuit university in San Francisco, California. While there, he sat on the governing board of the Associated Students Group. In the Spring of 1990, after a student at the University of San Francisco School of Law, Laurie Moore, had won a challenge allowing her and others to distribute pro-choice literature on campus, Kenney stated to a CNN reporter that "The pro-choice group, which is politically activating to legalize abortion-on-demand on this campus, while using campus facilities, is essentially destroying the mission and the purpose of the university." Kenney and others later petitioned the archbishop of San Francisco to drop the word "Catholic" from the university's name, in an effort to pressure the institution to ban the pro-choice group from campus.
He dropped out before completing his undergraduate degree to begin work in Saskatchewan provincial politics.
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