Scott Brison

The Honourable Scott Brison PC
President of the Treasury Board
In office November 4, 2015 – January 14, 2019
Prime Minister	Justin Trudeau
Preceded by	Tony Clement
Succeeded by	Jane Philpott
Minister of Public Works and Government Services
In office July 20, 2004 – February 6, 2006
Prime Minister	Paul Martin
Preceded by	Stephen Owen
Succeeded by	Michael Fortier
Member of Parliament for Kings—Hants
In office November 27, 2000 – February 10, 2019
Preceded by	Joe Clark
Succeeded by	Kody Blois
In office June 2, 1997 – July 24, 2000
Preceded by	John Murphy
Succeeded by	Joe Clark
Personal details
Born	(1967-05-10) May 10, 1967 (age 57) Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
Political party	Liberal (2003–present)
Other political affiliations	Progressive Conservative (1997–2003)
Spouse	Maxime Saint-Pierre ​ (m. 2007)​
Alma mater	Dalhousie University

Scott A. Brison PC (born May 10, 1967) is a former Canadian politician from Nova Scotia. Brison served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Kings-Hants from the 1997 federal election until July 2000, then from November 2000 to February 2019. He was the first openly gay MP to sit as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 2003, just days after the Progressive Conservatives and the more socially conservative Canadian Alliance voted to merge into the Conservative Party of Canada, Brison crossed the floor to join the Liberal Party.

Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Brison graduated from Dalhousie University. After entering Parliament in 2000, he served as the Minister of Public Works and Government Services from 2004 until 2006 in the Paul Martin government. In 2005, he was named by the World Economic Forum (WEF) of Davos, Switzerland, as one of its "Young Global Leaders".^[1] In Opposition from 2006 to 2013, Brison has served as the Liberal Party's Finance Critic. He was President of the Treasury Board of Canada in Justin Trudeau's ministry until January 2019.

Brison announced on January 10, 2019, that he would not be standing in the 2019 federal election and stepped down from cabinet.^[2] On February 6, 2019, he announced he was resigning his seat in the House of Commons of Canada effective February 10, 2019.^[3] After leaving politics, Brison became Bank of Montreal's vice-chair of investment and corporate banking^[4] and is a member of the Canadian American Business Council's advisory board.^[5]