Patrick Brown

2022 - 3 - 13

Patrick Brown attacks Pierre Poilievre for backing 'barbaric cultural ... (National Post)

Brown said Poilievre lacks credibility on any policy that impacts minority communities after his support for the policy in 2015.

“That means you can actually leverage, from $10 million, $300 million of study loans.” The Harper government had a similar program, but the Trudeau government put an end to it in 2017. “My goal is to remove the gatekeepers, so newcomers earn bigger paycheques faster and Canada can fill high demand jobs, like doctors, engineers, mechanics, electricians, and others. “Lying and dividing is no way to win. I would never support that, nor did Mr. Harper. What Mr. Harper proposed was that a person’s face be visible while giving oaths at citizenship ceremonies.” Conservatives have blamed those policies for costing them support among immigrant communities in the 2019 and 2021 campaigns.

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Opinion | Don't underestimate Patrick Brown — for better or for worse (Toronto Star)

What worked once before — promising everything to everyone — won't be an easy sell this time, Martin Regg Cohn writes.

Yet after all his ups and downs, is Brown overreaching yet again for a job that seems like a stretch? Despite the even longer odds on his renewed federal ambitions, history shows that anything is possible in leadership races when delegates are looking for a compromise candidate. Lest we forget, it wasn’t just the content but the context of the allegations that undid Brown back in 2018. Nor will Brown be able to rally votes from bedrock Tories who oppose any form of carbon pricing. In the aftermath, more questions came out about Brown’s personal finances, but as he fell from view the media lost interest. This month, CTV and Brown settled his $8-million defamation claim when the network formally expressed “regret” for getting “key facts” wrong.

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Patrick Brown, mayor of Brampton, Ont., joins race to lead federal Conservatives (Rocky Mountain Outlook)

— Patrick Brown has officially joined the race to lead the federal Conservatives, with a promise to heal the fractures that have erupted in the party over recent years. Brown, 43, launched his campaign in Brampton, Ont., where he has served as mayor since ...

Brown has not signalled any intent to resign as mayor of Brampton while seeking the federal party leadership. Those policies were the reason Conservatives lost that race against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, he said. Conservatives will find out who their new leader is Sept. 10. He has said he would donate his salary to various causes, including the William Osler Health System Foundation in Brampton for the duration of the race. In his speech, Brown addressed the main concern raised about his candidacy by party membership: his support for carbon pricing during his time as leader of the Progressive Conservatives in Ontario. BRAMPTON, Ont. — Patrick Brown has officially joined the race to lead the federal Conservatives, with a promise to heal the fractures that have erupted in the party over recent years.

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Patrick Brown launches Conservative leadership bid | CBC News (CBC.ca)

Patrick Brown, the former leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives and current mayor of Brampton, said Sunday that he is joining the race to become ...

And he promised to lead a Conservative breakthrough in the GTA. While he maintained that the Conservatives needed to be part of the solution to climate change, he said that must be balanced with affordability concerns. "As leader I will oversee a Conservative party membership-wide consultation on the environment. Brown resigned his role as head of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives after he was accused of sexual misconduct in a story published by CTV News in 2018. He was a federal Conservative MP for Barrie from 2008 to 2015 before leaving for provincial politics and becoming leader of the Progressive Conservatives that year. I want people who have never voted Conservative, who have voted for other parties, to feel welcome in our party," he said.

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Brown says Conservative leadership race shouldn't be a 'purity test' (Globalnews.ca)

Brampton mayor and former Ontario PC leader with a reputation as a strong organizer aims for a fourth political life as federal Conservative leader.

The next Conservative leader – the third in five years – is scheduled to be announced on Sept. 10. But that’s unlikely to stop the pugilistic Poilievre’s attacks on his former backbench colleague. Brown launched a reportedly $8-million defamation suit against CTV last year, which was settled last week as he was preparing to launch his leadership bid. The allegations were not tested in court. No money changed hands as a part of the settlement, but CTV acknowledged that some details provided to the network required correction. There’s too much at stake to elect another leader who will keep us in opposition.”

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