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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
|name             = Scott Brison
|honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|size=100%}}
|image            = 2017 Halifax International Security Forum (38490985791) (cropped) Scott Brison.jpg
|caption          = Brison in 2017
|office           = [[President of the Treasury Board]]
|primeminister    = [[Justin Trudeau]]
|term_start       = November 4, 2015
|term_end         = January 14, 2019
|predecessor      = [[Tony Clement]]
|successor        = [[Jane Philpott]]
|office1          = [[Minister of Public Services and Procurement and Accessibility|Minister of Public Works and Government Services]]
|primeminister1   = [[Paul Martin]]
|term_start1      = July 20, 2004
|term_end1        = February 6, 2006
|predecessor1     = [[Stephen Owen (politician)|Stephen Owen]]
|successor1       = [[Michael Fortier]]
|riding2          = [[Kings—Hants]]
|parliament2      = Canadian
|term_start2      = November 27, 2000
|term_end2        = February 10, 2019
|predecessor2     = [[Joe Clark]]
|successor2       = [[Kody Blois]]
|term_start3      = June 2, 1997
|term_end3        = July 24, 2000
|predecessor3     = [[John Murphy (Canadian politician)|John Murphy]]
|successor3       = [[Joe Clark]]
|birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1967|5|10}}<ref name="bio">{{cite web |title=About Scott Brison |url=https://www.brison.ca/about/ |website=Brison.ca |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250503112026/https://www.brison.ca/about/ |archive-date=3 May 2025 |access-date=3 May 2025}}</ref>
|birth_place      = [[Windsor, Nova Scotia]], Canada
|death_date       = 
|death_place      = 
|party            = [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] (2003–present)
|otherparty       = [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] (1997–2003)
|spouse           = {{marriage|Maxime Saint-Pierre|2007}}
|alma_mater       = [[Dalhousie University]]
}}

'''Scott A. Brison''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} (born May 10, 1967) is a Canadian politician from [[Nova Scotia]]. Brison served as the [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for the riding of [[Kings—Hants]] from June 1997 to July 2000, and from November 2000 to February 2019. He was the first openly gay MP to sit as a member of the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative Party]]. In 2003, just days after the Progressive Conservatives and the [[Canadian Alliance]] voted to merge into the [[Conservative Party of Canada]], Brison [[crossing the floor|crossed the floor]] to join the [[Liberal Party of Canada|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]] as one of its "Young Global Leaders".<ref>{{cite web|title=A generation of change|url=http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_YGL_Brochure.pdf|format=PSF|publisher=World Economic Forum|date=2014|access-date=23 June 2016}}</ref> 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 Canadian federal election|2019 federal election]] and stepped down from cabinet.<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 January 2019 |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/4833757/scott-brison-resigns-2019-canadian-election/ |title =Scott Brison resigns from federal Liberal cabinet |work=Global News |agency=The Canadian Press |access-date=2 May 2025}}</ref> On February 6, 2019, he announced he was resigning his seat in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] effective February 10, 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/4931809/scott-brison-resigns-mp-kings-hants/|title = Former Liberal cabinet minister Scott Brison stepping down as MP effective next week &#124; Globalnews.ca}}</ref> After leaving politics, Brison became [[Bank of Montreal]]'s vice-chair of investment and corporate banking<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/former-liberal-cabinet-minister-scott-brison-joins-bmo-1.5018143 |agency=The Canadian Press |work=CBC News |title=Scott Brison takes job with Bank of Montreal, weeks after resigning from cabinet |date=14 February 2019 |access-date=22 February 2019}}</ref> and is a member of the [[Canadian American Business Council]]'s advisory board.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=CABC Advisory Board Members |url=https://cabc.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CABC-Advisory-Board-Members-0724.pdf |access-date=3 May 2025 |website=Canadian American Business Council |page=7 |language=en-US |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901123909/https://cabc.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CABC-Advisory-Board-Members-0724.pdf |archive-date=1 September 2024}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Brison was born in [[Windsor, Nova Scotia]], the son of Verna Patricia (née Salter) and Clifford Brison, who ran a grocery store.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3448600419/brison-hon-scott-b.html |title =Brison, Hon. Scott, B.Comm. (Kings—Hants) Minister of Public Works and Government Services |publisher=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://allenfh.ca/tribute/details/504/Clifford-Brison/obituary.html |url-status=live |title=Clifford Raymond Brison: 1923-2020 |website=J. Wilson Allen Funeral Homes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230929180550/https://allenfh.ca/tribute/details/504/Clifford-Brison/obituary.html |archive-date=29 September 2023 |access-date=25 January 2024 |quote=}}</ref> He graduated from Hants West Rural High School, subsequently earning a [[Bachelor of Commerce]] from [[Dalhousie University]] in [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]]. While in Halifax, he operated a business renting [[refrigerator|small fridges]] – he has jokingly referred to himself as a "fridge magnate".<ref>{{cite news |title=Expect Brison to bring sunny ways to finance |last1=Martin |first1=Lawrence |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/expect-brison-to-bring-sunny-ways-to-economic-portfolio/article27072050/ |work=The Globe and Mail |date=3 November 2015 |access-date=23 June 2016}}</ref> Brison then worked in corporate sales for ten years.

==Political career==
Brison entered politics as a [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] candidate in the Nova Scotia riding of [[Kings—Hants]] in the [[1997 Canadian federal election|1997 election]]. He defeated incumbent [[John Murphy (Nova Scotia politician)|John Murphy]] with 36.3% of the vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.herald.ns.ca/fedelect97/97archive/jun3/970603100.html|title=Brison victorious for Tories in Kings-Hants|work=The Chronicle Herald|date=3 June 1997|access-date=2014-10-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011130174850/http://www.herald.ns.ca/fedelect97/97archive/jun3/970603100.html|archive-date=30 November 2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Thirty-sixth General Election 1997: Official Voting Results |url=https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=rep/off/dec3097&document=res_table1203&lang=e |publisher=Elections Canada |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912135028/https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=rep/off/dec3097&document=res_table1203&lang=e |archive-date=12 September 2012 |access-date=3 May 2025}}</ref>

In July 2000, Brison resigned his seat so that PC leader [[Joe Clark]] could enter the [[House of Commons of Canada|House of Commons]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Cornellier |first=Manon |date=25 July 2000 |title=Clark se présentera en Nouvelle-Écosse |trans-title=Clark to run in Nova Scotia |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/le-devoir-clark-se-presentera-en-nouvell/171547087/ |language=FR |work=Le Devoir |location=Montreal, QC |access-date=2 May 2025 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In the interim, Brison was appointed co-chair of the Progressive Conservative Party's Election Policy Platform Committee,<ref>{{cite news |last=McDonald |first=Terry |date=31 July 2000 |title=Tories assemble national and provincial campaign teams |url=https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2000/07/31/tories-assemble-national-and-provincial-campaign-teams/252923/ |url-access=subscription |work=The Hill Times |access-date=3 May 2025}}</ref> and worked in investment banking at Yorkton Securities in [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Critchley |first=Barry |date=20 September 2000 |title=Contentious way to pay bankers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/national-post-contentious-way-to-pay-bro/171548013/ |work=National Post |location=Toronto, ON |access-date=2 May 2025 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

When the [[2000 Canadian federal election|2000 election]] was called in October, Clark stood for election in a [[Calgary, Alberta]] riding. Brison returned as the PC candidate in Kings—Hants, and was returned to Parliament.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaypackstory?2000/11/28+248.raw+FE00Nov28+2|title=Brison headed back to hill after brief break|work=The Chronicle Herald|date=28 November 2000|access-date=4 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050124093524/http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaypackstory?2000%2F11%2F28+248.raw+FE00Nov28+2|archive-date=24 January 2005|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2001, he served as the party's Finance and Industry critic, and was vice-chairman of the House of Commons Finance committee. Brison came out as gay in 2002,<ref>{{cite news |date=7 December 2002 |title=MP comes out of the closet |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/edmonton-journal-mp-comes-out-of-the-clo/171548744/ |work=The Canadian Press |location=Edmonton, AB |publisher=Edmonton Journal |access-date=2 May 2025 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and has said that he is "not a gay politician, but a politician who happens to be gay."<ref name=marriage/>

===Progressive Conservative leadership bid===
In 2003, following Clark's retirement, Brison ran for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2003/01/31/f179.raw.html|title=Brison 'ready to lead' Tories|work=The Chronicle Herald|date=31 January 2003|access-date=4 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030422075510/http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2003/01/31/f179.raw.html|archive-date=22 April 2003}}</ref> on a platform of "new ideas", that consisted  of Employment Insurance reform, more private involvement in health care, integrated defence strategy with the US, and socially liberal policies. At the [[2003 Progressive Conservative leadership election|leadership convention]], his campaign was dealt a crucial blow by [[John Herron (New Brunswick politician)|John Herron]] who defected to the MacKay camp. Despite gaining votes on the second ballot, Brison was eliminated by three votes and threw his support to [[Jim Prentice]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=5E6B5F60-AEA0-41F8-BDC8-3B45ECCCBE5D |title=MacKay crowned Tory leader |work=Ottawa Citizen |date=1 June 2003 |access-date=2015-05-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018064725/http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=5E6B5F60-AEA0-41F8-BDC8-3B45ECCCBE5D |archive-date=18 October 2015}}</ref>  Prentice lost on the final ballot to [[Peter MacKay]] (who won with the support of [[David Orchard]]). During this time he fought publicly with other members of his party, particularly [[Elsie Wayne]], over their opposition to [[same-sex marriage in Canada|same-sex marriage]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Morrison |first=Campbell |date=30 October 2003 |title=MP has no regret over spat with Elsie |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-transcript-mp-has-no-regret-ov/171551354/ |work=Times-Transcript |location=Moncton, NB |access-date=2 May 2025 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Brison was highly critical of [[Larry Spencer]]'s suggestion in an interview with ''The Vancouver Sun'' that gay sex should be criminalized, saying "statements like this have the potential to stigmatize the new party, so it's important that we denounce those statements strongly."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gordon |first1=Sean |last2=O'Neil |first2=Peter |date=28 November 2003 |title=Remarks bolster unite-the-right foes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-remarks-bolster-unite/171557790/ |work=The Vancouver Sun |location=Vancouver, BC |access-date=2 May 2025}}</ref>

===Crossing the floor===
On December 10, 2003, four days after Brison voted in favour of the PCs merging with the [[Canadian Alliance]] to form the new [[Conservative Party of Canada]], Brison announced that he would [[cross the floor]] and sit as a Liberal MP.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2003/12/11/f255.raw.html |title=Brison joins Liberals |work=The Chronicle Herald |date=11 December 2003 |access-date=4 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031223133034/http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2003/12/11/f255.raw.html |archive-date=23 December 2003}}</ref> Brison was critical of the Conservative Party, stating "I want to work with a party that I can support without reservation, a party fuelled by bold ideas, not rigid ideologies".<ref name="jump">{{cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Mark |date=11 December 2003 |title=Tory MP Scott Brison jumps to Martin's Liberals |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-tory-mp-scott-brison-jumps-t/171553206/ |work=Canwest News Service |location=Montreal, QC |publisher=The Gazette |access-date=2 May 2025 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Brison spoke highly of [[Paul Martin]], standing in contrast to his comments a year prior where he criticized Martin in a published essay. Fellow Nova Scotia MP [[Peter MacKay]] criticized Brison for crossing the floor, characterizing him as a hypocrite and stating that he "[couldn't] find any principle whatsoever in what's happened." MacKay claimed Brison was likely offered a reward by Martin for switching parties, and predicted that Brison would "fade into the background" of the Liberal Party.<ref name="jump"/> New Brunswick MP [[Greg Thompson]] accused Brison of being a "political opportunist".<ref>{{cite news |last=Roik |first=Richard |date=11 December 2003 |title=N.B. Tory slams former leadership hopeful's jump to Liberals |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/telegraph-journal-nb-tory-slams-former/171551822/ |work=Telegraph-Journal |location=Saint John, NB |access-date=2 May 2025 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Brison claimed his enthusiasm for the merger had become discernibly lukewarm in the final weeks before the vote.  He indicated that he would honour his prior commitment to support the proposal, but said that he would reconsider his allegiance once the results were announced.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

===Liberal leadership bid===
{{Further|Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, 2006}}
[[File:Ignatieff and Brison Ottawa 2010.jpg|thumb|Brison and [[Michael Ignatieff]] in Ottawa in 2010]]
On April 22, 2006, Brison entered the race for the [[2006 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election|leadership]] of the [[Liberal Party of Canada]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/brison-joins-liberal-leadership-race-1.625347|title=Brison joins Liberal leadership race|work=CBC News|date=23 April 2006|access-date=24 May 2015}}</ref>  His Liberal leadership platform emphasised both  [[environmentalism]] and economic reform calling for a "green" platform that called for personal and corporate tax cuts to prompt business growth and curb pollution.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1145742615110&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home|title=Brison set to go 'green' in Liberal race: Will focus on environmental concerns|first=Les|last=Whittington|publisher=[[Toronto Star]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060502102825/http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar%2FLayout%2FArticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1145742615110&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home|archive-date=2006-05-02|access-date=21 August 2007|date=23 April 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> Brison won 4.0% of the vote on the first ballot with 192 delegates, leaving him in 6th place out of eight candidates.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=d275617c-386c-4ff6-87a6-068af6e2cd43|title=Ignatieff leads after first ballot, but outcome still in question|work=Canada.com|date=2 December 2006|access-date=24 May 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018064725/http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=d275617c-386c-4ff6-87a6-068af6e2cd43|archive-date=October 18, 2015}}</ref>  He dropped out and threw his support behind [[Bob Rae]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Canada/2006/12/02/2591687.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018064725/http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Canada/2006/12/02/2591687.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 18, 2015|title=Rae gets Scott Brison support|work=canoe.com|date=2 December 2006|access-date=24 May 2015}}</ref> When Bob Rae dropped out on the third ballot and released his delegates, Scott Brison opted to support the politically similar [[Michael Ignatieff]].<ref>{{cite news |date=4 December 2006 |title=2006 leadership race |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/liberals/leadershiprace.html |work=CBC News |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328054650/https://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/liberals/leadershiprace.html |archive-date=28 March 2016 |access-date=3 May 2025}}</ref> The final winner of the leadership convention was [[Stéphane Dion]].

===Martin and Trudeau governments===
On December 13, 2003, he was appointed as a [[parliamentary secretary]] to the Prime Minister<ref>{{cite web|title=Guide to Canadian Ministries since Confederation|url=http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/mgm/dtail.asp?lang=eng&mstyid=31&mbtpid=5|publisher=Government of Canada|date=26 March 2014|access-date=29 June 2016|archive-date=21 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160621140307/http://pco-bcp.gc.ca/mgm/dtail.asp?lang=eng&mstyid=31&mbtpid=5|url-status=dead}}</ref> with special emphasis on Canada-U.S. Relations and sworn into the [[Queen's Privy Council for Canada]]. In the [[2004 Canadian federal election|2004 election]], Brison was re-elected, his first victory as a Liberal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaypackstory?2004/06/29+280.raw+FE04Jun29+2|title=Clear win for Brison|work=The Chronicle Herald|date=June 29, 2004|access-date=2015-05-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050927025908/http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaypackstory?2004%2F06%2F29+280.raw+FE04Jun29+2|archive-date=27 September 2005|url-status=dead}}</ref> On July 20, 2004, Brison was named to cabinet as Minister of Public Works in Martin's post-election shuffle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2004/07/21/f134.raw.html|title=Brison gets hot potato|work=The Chronicle Herald|date=21 July 2004|access-date=4 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040723062126/http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2004/07/21/f134.raw.html|archive-date=23 July 2004}}</ref> In doing so, he became Canada's [[List of the first LGBT holders of political offices in Canada|first openly gay cabinet minister]].<ref name=marriage>{{cite web|url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/mp-scott-brison-marries-same-sex-partner-1.253018|title=MP Scott Brison marries same-sex partner|work=CTV News|date=18 August 2007|access-date=24 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426181124/https://www.ctvnews.ca/mp-scott-brison-marries-same-sex-partner-1.253018 |archive-date=26 April 2023}}</ref>

As the youngest member of cabinet, Brison also served on three cabinet committees – Treasury Board, Domestic Affairs, and Expenditure Review.<ref name="bio"/> Previously, he had served as vice-chairman of the Standing Committee on Finance, been a member of the Standing Committee on Industry, the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

He was also a member of the Canada-U.S. Inter-Parliamentary Group and has served as the vice-president of the Canadian group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union where he took part in conferences in Moscow and New York. He was also part of the Canadian delegation sent to two annual meetings of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

In 2012, while Brison served as Liberal finance critic, [[Bank of Canada]] governor [[Mark Carney]] stayed at his summer cottage in Nova Scotia to encourage Carney to run in the party's leadership election. The trip was cleared from conflict of interest allegations.<ref>https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-s-stay-with-liberal-critic-not-a-conflict-bank-says-1.1253875</ref><ref>https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/nothing-inappropriate-about-cottage-stay-during-liberal-courtship-carney/</ref>

On November 4, 2015, he was appointed the [[Treasury Board President]] in [[29th Canadian Ministry|Justin Trudeau's cabinet]],<ref name=CbCTrudeauCabinet2015-11-04/> a position he held until the end of 2018. Brison initially committed to running in the 2019 federal election, however in December 2018 he decided to retire. The timing of his retirement was called into question, coming as he was currently involved in the controversy from the prosecution of Admiral [[Mark Norman (Canadian naval officer)|Mark Norman]].<ref name="norman">{{cite news |last=Brewster |first=Murray |date=10 January 2019 |title=The Norman case casts a long shadow over Scott Brison's retirement |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/brison-mark-norman-trudeau-supply-ship-1.4974115 |work=CBC News |access-date=2 May 2025}}</ref> Norman's lawyers alleged that Brison attempted to cancel a $668 million government leasing contract with [[Davie Shipbuilding]] on behalf of [[Irving Shipbuilding]], a company from his home province of Nova Scotia which Norman's lawyers alleged Brison had close ties with. Brison repeatedly denied that the timing of his resignation was related to the case.<ref name="norman"/><ref name="cpip">{{cite news |last1=Pinkerton |first1=Charlie |title=Failed prosecution of vice-admiral Mark Norman cost government more than $1.4 million |url=https://ipolitics.ca/2020/01/28/failed-prosecution-of-vice-admiral-mark-norman-cost-government-more-than-1-4-million/ |publisher=iPolitics |date=28 January 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220831220013/https://www.ipolitics.ca/news/failed-prosecution-of-vice-admiral-mark-norman-cost-government-more-than-1-4-million |archive-date=31 August 2022}}</ref> Announcing his decision to leave politics, Brison said at the time that it "feels very right" to him.<ref>{{Cite web|date=10 January 2019|title='Feels very right': Liberal Scott Brison resigns from cabinet, not running in 2019|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/feels-very-right-liberal-scott-brison-resigns-from-cabinet-not-running-in-2019/|access-date=25 January 2022|work=CTV News|language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905185814/https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/feels-very-right-liberal-scott-brison-resigns-from-cabinet-not-running-in-2019-1.4247949 |archive-date=5 September 2019}}</ref>

== Post-political career ==
After leaving politics, Brison became [[Bank of Montreal]]'s vice-chair of investment and corporate banking<ref name=":0" /> and is a member of the [[Canadian American Business Council]]'s advisory board.<ref name=":1" /> From 2020 to 2023, he was chancellor of [[Dalhousie University]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 3, 2019 |title=Former MP Scott Brison to be next chancellor of Dalhousie University |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/scott-brison-dalhousie-university-chancellor-1.5382191 |access-date=March 30, 2025 |work=[[CBC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Chancellor Scott Brison wishes Dal grads well as he concludes his final Convocation ceremonies |url=https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/06/15/scott-brison-dalhousie-chancellor-convocation.html |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Dalhousie News |language=en}}</ref>

==Personal life==
It was announced in October 2005 that he and his partner Maxime Saint-Pierre intended to marry.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051008/brison_weddingbells_051008/20051008?hub=Canada |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060109030954/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051008/brison_weddingbells_051008/20051008?hub=Canada |url-status=dead |archive-date=2006-01-09 |date=2005-10-08 |publisher=[[CTV.ca]] |title=Nova Scotia MP Scott Brison mulls wedding bells |access-date=2007-08-21 }}</ref> They were married on August 18, 2007 in [[Chéverie, Nova Scotia|Chéverie]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/brison-first-mp-to-wed-under-same-sex-marriage-law-1.675615|title=Brison first MP to wed under same-sex marriage law|date=2007-08-18|publisher=[[CBC News]]|access-date=2014-03-20}}</ref> Their daughters, Claire Brison-St. Pierre and Rose Brison-St. Pierre, were born via a [[surrogate mother]] on February 21, 2014.<ref>{{cite news|last=Raphael|first=Michael|title=Mitchel Raphael on cross-border babymaking and wives' last names|url=http://www.macleans.ca/general/capital-diary-6|newspaper=Maclean's Magazine|date=October 1, 2012|access-date=November 1, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Brison, St. Pierre welcome twin girls|url=http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1189351-brison-st-pierre-welcome-twin-girls|newspaper=The Chronicle Herald|date=February 24, 2014|access-date=November 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151110132615/https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1189351-brison-st-pierre-welcome-twin-girls/ |archive-date=November 10, 2015}}</ref>

==Electoral record==

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2015|Kings—Hants|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}}
{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Scott Brison|33,026|70.74|+31.19|$88,355.31}}
{{CANelec|CA|Conservative|[[David Morse (politician)|David Morse]]|8,677|18.59|–18.05|$80,877.49}}
{{CANelec|CA|NDP|Hugh Curry|2,998|6.42|–13.60|$15,831.09}}
{{CANelec|CA|Green|Will Cooper|1,569|3.36|–0.42|$1,277.65}}
{{CANelec|CA|Rhinoceros|Megan Brown-Hodges|184|0.39|–|$730.27}}
{{CANelec|CA|Independent|Edd Twohig|132|0.28|–|$1,070.96}}
{{CANelec|CA|Independent|Cliff James Williams|100|0.21|–|–}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes/Expense limit|46,686|100.00|&nbsp;|$200,775.69}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots|202|0.43| }}
{{Canadian election result/total|Turnout|46,888|70.56| }}
{{Canadian election result/total|Eligible voters|66,454}}
{{CANelec/hold|CA|Liberal|+24.62}}
{{CANelec/source|Source: [[Elections Canada]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDistricts.aspx?lang=e|title=October 19, 2015 Election Results — Kings—Hants (Validated results)|publisher=[[Elections Canada]]|date=21 October 2015|access-date=24 October 2015}}</ref><ref>[http://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=can&dir=cand/canlim&document=index&lang=e Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150815061116/http://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=can&dir=cand%2Fcanlim&document=index&lang=e |date=2015-08-15 }}</ref>|}}
{{end}}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2011|Kings—Hants|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Scott Brison|15,887|39.56|-4.62}}
{{CANelec|CA|Conservative|David Morse|14,714|36.63|+10.49}}
{{CANelec|CA|NDP|Mark Rogers|8,043|20.03|-1.98}}
{{CANelec|CA|Green|Sheila Richardson|1,520|3.78|-2.46}}
{{CANelec/total|Total valid votes/Expense limit|40,164|100.0 &nbsp;|&nbsp;}}
{{CANelec/total|Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots|200|0.50|+0.01}}
{{CANelec/total|Turnout|40,364|61.76|+3.17}}
{{CANelec/total|Eligible voters|65,355}}
{{CANelec/hold|CA|Liberal|-7.56}}
{{end}}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2008|Kings—Hants|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Scott Brison|16,641|44.18|-1.38}}
{{CANelec|CA|Conservative|Rosemary Segado|9,846|26.14|-6.05}}
{{CANelec|CA|NDP|Carol Harris|8,291|22.01|+2.99}}
{{CANelec|CA|Green|Brendan MacNeill|2,353|6.24|+4.04}}
{{CANelec|CA|Christian Heritage|[[Jim Hnatiuk]]|528|1.40|–}}
{{CANelec/total|Total valid votes/Expense limit|37,659|100.0 &nbsp;|&nbsp;}}
{{CANelec/total|Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots|187|0.49|+0.08}}
{{CANelec/total|Turnout|37,846|58.59|-6.60}}
{{CANelec/total|Eligible voters|64,593}}
{{CANelec/hold|CA|Liberal|+2.34}}
{{end}}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2006|Kings—Hants|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Scott Brison|19,491|45.56|-1.05}}
{{CANelec|CA|Conservative|Bob Mullan|13,772|32.19|+2.07}}
{{CANelec|CA|NDP|Mary Dewolfe|8,138|19.02|+1.33}}
{{CANelec|CA|Green|Sheila Richardson|947|2.21|-1.41}}
{{CANelec|CA|Marijuana|Chummy Anthony|436|1.02|–}}
{{CANelec/total|Total valid votes/Expense limit|42,784|100.0 &nbsp;|&nbsp;}}
{{CANelec/total|Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots|177|0.41|-0.35}}
{{CANelec/total|Turnout|42,961|65.19|+2.77}}
{{CANelec/total|Eligible voters|65,898}}
{{CANelec/hold|CA|Liberal|-1.56}}
{{end}}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2004|Kings—Hants|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Scott Brison|17,555|46.61|+16.11}}
{{CANelec|CA|Conservative|Bob Mullan|11,344|30.12|-19.42}}
{{CANelec|CA|NDP|Skip Hambling|6,663|17.69|+0.08}}
{{CANelec|CA|Green|Kevin Stacey|1,364|3.62|–}}
{{CANelec|CA|Christian Heritage|[[Jim Hnatiuk]]|493|1.31|–}}
{{CANelec|CA|Independent|Richard Hennigar|242|0.64|+0.34}}
{{CANelec/total|Total valid votes/Expense limit|37,661|100.0 &nbsp;|&nbsp;}}
{{CANelec/total|Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots|289|0.76| }}
{{CANelec/total|Turnout|37,950|62.42| }}
{{CANelec/total|Eligible voters|60,801}}
{{CANelec/gain|CA|Liberal|PC|+18.56}}
{{end}}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2000|Kings—Hants|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|CA|PC|Scott Brison|17,612|40.29|-13.16}}
{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Claude O'Hara|13,213|30.23|-0.03}}
{{CANelec|CA|NDP|Kaye Johnson|7,244|16.57|-10.57}}
{{CANelec|CA|Canadian Alliance|Gerry Fulton|4,618|10.56|-5.58}}
{{CANelec|CA|Marijuana|Jim King|669|1.53| }}
{{CANelec|CA|Independent|Kenneth MacEachern|140|0.32| }}
{{CANelec|CA|Natural Law|Richard Hennigar|133|0.30|-0.28}}
{{CANelec|CA|Communist|Graham Jake MacDonald|85|0.19|-0.33}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes|43,714|100.00 }}
{{end}}

{{Canadian election result/top|CA|1997|Kings—Hants|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|CA|PC|Scott Brison|17,401|36.27|+16.04}}
{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|[[John Murphy (Canadian politician)|John Murphy]]|14,515|30.26|-9.23}}
{{CANelec|CA|NDP|Philip A. Brown|9,101|18.97|+13.97}}
{{CANelec|CA|Reform|Lloyd Schmidt|6,424|13.39|+0.57}}
{{CANelec|CA|Natural Law|James McLelland|278|0.58|-0.47}}
{{CANelec|CA|Independent|Graham Jake MacDonald|251|0.52| }}
{{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes|47,970|100.00 }}
{{end}}

== References ==
{{Reflist|2|refs=
<ref name=CbCTrudeauCabinet2015-11-04>
{{cite news
| url         = http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/full-list-of-justin-trudeau-s-cabinet-1.3300699
| title       = Full list of Justin Trudeau's cabinet 31-member cabinet includes 15 women, attempt at regional balance
| publisher   = [[CBC News]]
| date        = 2015-11-04
}}
</ref>
}}

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