Scott Brison

Scott A. Brison PC ( born May 10, 1967 in Windsor ( Nova Scotia ) ) is a Canadian politician. Brison was under the Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin Minister of Public Works and Government Services. Brison is a Member of the Liberal Party of Canada and represents the constituency of Kings - Hants in Nova Scotia.

Biography

After his education, he achieved a Bachelor of Commerce from Dalhousie University. After studying Brison worked for ten years at a company in the private sector. In 1997, he appeared 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 in parliament in favor of party leader Joe Clark. Meanwhile, Brison was in the board of the Tories ' Election Policy Platform Committee and was elected Vice President of the Investment Bank Yorkton Securities in Toronto. In the elections in 2000 Brison came again in Kings - Hants and again achieved a seat in parliament for the Canadian House of Commons. As an elected representative to Brison committed for financial and industry issues and was Vice- Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance. 2002, Brison be coming out and said: " I'm not a gay politican, but a politican who happens to be gay. " He was after Svend Robinson, Bill Siksay, Réal Ménard and Libby Davies, the fifth openly gay MPs in Canadian Parliament.

2003, following the abandonment of Joe Clark fought Brison for the leadership in the Progressive Conservative Party and was a member of a political platform called New ideas that a reform of the unemployment insurance, more private involvement of individuals in health care, an integrated defense strategy with the United States and socially liberal policy aimed. At the National Convention in 2003 was Brisons Program by John Herron, who belongs to the intraparty rival camp led by Peter MacKay, rejected. As Brison in the vote did not receive the necessary party votes to the party presidency, he assisted Jim Prentice. This lost the vote and the opposition candidate MacKay, who had the encouragement of David Orchard, was party leader of the Progressive Conservatives. Brison fights within the party itself and the subject of same-sex marriage and had especially with Elsie Wayne public controversy.

On 10 December 2003, four days after the approval of the party merged with the Canadian Alliance to the Conservative Party of Canada Brison said quitting the party and its political shift to the Liberal Party. He attributed this to the expected dominance of socially conservative party members of the Canadian Alliance under Stephen Harper in the new merged party. On December 12, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister Paul Martin.

In the parliamentary election in 2004 Brison was as a deputy, who took for the Liberals re-elected. Brison was appointed on 20 July 2004 as Minister of Public Works in the Cabinet of Paul Martin. This Brison was the first openly avowed homosexual Canadian Minister. Brison, 2004 was the youngest Minister in the Cabinet. He worked in 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 As well as the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates.

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

2006 Paul Martin lost the majority in the House of Commons of Canada and the Conservatives formed a minority government. Brison currently sits as a Liberal MP in opposition.