Scott Brison

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Scott A. Brison

Scott A. Brison PC (born May 10, 1967 in Windsor , Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian Liberal Party politician . Brison was Canadian Minister of Public Works and Government Services under Prime Minister Paul Martin and President of the Treasury Committee under Justin Trudeau . With a brief interruption, he represented the constituency of Kings-Hants in Nova Scotia from 1997 to 2019 in the Canadian House of Commons .

biography

After completing school, he earned a Bachelor of Commerce from Dalhousie University . After graduating, Brison worked for a company in the private sector for ten years. In 1997 he stood as a politician of the Progressive Conservative Party in Nova Scotia for the elections in Kings-Hants and won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons . He gave up this seat of parliament in favor of party leader Joe Clark . Meanwhile, Brison had been elected to the board of directors of the Tories' Election Policy Platform Committee and became vice president of Yorkton Securities investment bank in Toronto . In the elections in 2000, Brison came back to Kings-Hants and again achieved a seat in the Canadian House of Commons. As a MP, Brison was involved in finance and industry and became vice-chairman of the parliamentary committee on finance. In 2002 Brison came out and declared: “I'm not a gay politican, but a politican who happens to be gay.” This made him the fifth openly gay MP after Svend Robinson , Bill Siksay , Réal Ménard and Libby Davies Canadian Parliament.

In 2003, after leaving Joe Clark, Brison fought for leadership in the Progressive Conservative Party and was a member of a political platform called New Ideas , which promoted unemployment insurance reform, more private individual engagement in health care, and an integrated defense strategy with the United States and strived for more socially liberal politics. At the party convention in 2003, Brison's program was rejected by John Herron , a member of the inner-party opposing camp around Peter MacKay . When Brison did not get the necessary party votes in the vote for the party chairmanship, he supported Jim Prentice . This lost the vote and the opposing candidate MacKay, who among other things had the support of David Orchard, became party leader of the Progressive Conservatives. Brison himself also fights within the party on same-sex marriage and has had public disputes with Elsie Wayne in particular.

On December 10, 2003, four days after agreeing to merge with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada , Brison declared that he was leaving the party and his political change to the Liberal Party . He justified this with the expected dominance of socially more conservative party members of the Canadian Alliance under Stephen Harper in the new merged party. On December 12, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Paul Martin .

In the 2004 general election, Brison was re-elected as a member of parliament running for the Liberals. Brison was appointed Minister of Public Works in Paul Martin's Cabinet on July 20, 2004 . This made Brison the first openly self-confessed homosexual Canadian minister. Brison was the youngest minister in the government cabinet in 2004. He served on the three cabinet committees Treasury Board , Domestic Affairs and Expenditure Review . In addition, Brison was Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee on Finance , a member of the Standing Committee on Industry , a member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates .

In October 2005, Brison and his partner Maxime Saint-Pierre announced their engagement. The wedding took place on August 17, 2007.

In 2006 Paul Martin lost the majority in the Canadian House of Commons and the Conservatives formed a minority government. Brison was then as a Liberal MP in the opposition. In Justin Trudeau's 29th cabinet , he served as President of the Treasury Committee (ministerial rank) from November 4, 2015 to January 14, 2019. From February 9, 2018 to December 2018, he also acted as acting manager for the Minister for Democratic Institutions, Karina Gould, during her maternity leave . On January 10, 2019, Brison announced his retirement from the cabinet to have more time with his family. A month later, he also retired from his seat in the Canadian House of Commons.

On February 14, 2019, Brison became Vice Chairman of the Bank of Montreal, with responsibility for Investments and Corporate Banking. In December 2019 he was appointed Chancellor of Dalhousie University. He will take up this office in June 2020.

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  1. ↑ Ctv
  2. ^ Statement by the Prime Minister on upcoming temporary changes to the Ministry , communication from Justin Trudeau's office , February 9, 2018
  3. ^ Scott Brison resigns from federal Liberal cabinet. In: Global News. January 10, 2019, accessed February 28, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Amanda Connolly: Former Liberal cabinet minister Scott Brison stepping down as MP effective next week. In: Global News. February 6, 2019, accessed February 28, 2020 .
  5. ^ Scott Brison takes job with Bank of Montreal, weeks after resigning from cabinet. In: CBC / Radio-Canada . February 14, 2019, accessed February 28, 2020 .
  6. ^ Ex-Liberal minister Scott Brison named chancellor of Dalhousie University. In: CTV News . December 3, 2019, accessed February 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Brison, Scott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brison, Scott A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Windsor (Nova Scotia)