He has since been followed by other gay and lesbian politicians in Parliament: Bloc Québécois MPs Réal Ménard and Raymond Gravel, fellow New Democrats Libby Davies and Bill Siksay, and Liberal Party of Canada MPs Scott Brison and Mario Silva, as well as Senators Laurier LaPierre and Nancy Ruth.

Brison has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the riding of Kings-Hants since the 1997 federal election.

As the youngest member of cabinet, Brison also served on three cabinet committees – Treasury Board, Domestic Affairs, and Expenditure Review.

After Brison defected to the Liberal party, however, MacKay revealed the original copy.

Some PC caucus members refused to accept the merger: long-time Tory MP and former Prime Minister Joe Clark continued to sit as a " Progressive Conservative " for the remainder of the Parliament, as did MPs John Herron and André Bachand, while Scott Brison left the new party to join the Liberal Party in December 2003.

Brison was originally elected as a Progressive Conservative but crossed the floor to join the Liberal Party in 2003.

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.

In the 2004 election, Brison was re-elected, his first victory as a Liberal.

On April 22, 2006, Brison entered the race for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Members of Parliament ( MPs ) André Bachand, John Herron, Joe Clark and Scott Brison declined to join the new party – Brison immediately crossed the floor to the Liberals, Bachand and Clark sat out the remainder of the 37th Canadian Parliament as Progressive Conservatives and then retired from office in the 2004 election, and Herron sat as a Progressive Conservative for the remainder of the term but then ran for re-election in 2004 as a Liberal.

He openly considered joining the Liberals once the merger was finalized, and was on hand to provide " moral support " for Progressive Conservative MP Scott Brison when he announced his own defection to the Liberal Party.

Others had also pointed out that as Finance Critic, he had been outspoken in his attacks on Paul Martin who was Finance Minister ; Brison was criticized as an opportunist for switching parties and accepting a position as parliamentary secretary.

Brison and Ignatieff in Ottawa in 2010

In Constantinople around 400 AD the empress Aelia Eudoxia had a eunuch choir-master, Brison, who may have established the use of castrati in Byzantine choirs, though whether Brison himself was a singer, and whether he had colleagues who were eunuch singers, is not certain.

* Brison Manor ( born 1952 ), defensive lineman who played eight seasons in the National Football League for the Denver Broncos, from 1977-1984.

They made McKenna the favourite with 7 to 2 odds beating Scott Brison ( 8 to 1 ), Martin Cauchon ( 10 to 1 ), Michael Ignatieff and John Manley ( each 15 to 1 ) among others.

He was one of a handful of newly elected " Young Turk " PC MPs ( including John Herron, André Bachand and Scott Brison ), who were under 35 years old when elected and were considered the future leadership material that might restore the ailing Tories to their glory days.

Several opponents, including former PC Party Treasurer Jim Prentice, social conservative candidate Craig Chandler, and Red Tory Nova Scotia MP Scott Brison, painted MacKay as a status quo or " establishment " candidate who could effectively question the Prime Minister.

On the morning of December 2, after finishing second on the first ballot, rival candidate Scott Brison, moved to Rae and yet another rival candidate, Ken Dryden, moved to him after the second ballot.

Rae was named co-chair of the Liberals ' platform development committee, with Scott Brison.

In October and November, during the course of the PC party's process of ratifying the merger, four sitting Progressive Conservative MPs — André Bachand, John Herron, former Tory leadership candidate Scott Brison, and former Prime Minister Joe Clark — announced their intention not to join the new Conservative Party caucus, as did retiring PC Party president Bruck Easton.

Clark and Brison argued that the party's merger with the Canadian Alliance drove it too far to the right, and away from its historical position in Canadian politics.

Brison, at first, voted for and supported the ratification of the Alliance-Tory merger, then crossed the floor to the Liberals.

Scott A. Brison, PC, MP ( born May 10, 1967 ) is a Canadian politician from Nova Scotia, Canada.

Brison was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, the son of Verna ( née Salter ) and Clifford Brison.

Brison then worked in corporate sales for ten years.

Brison was one of a handful of new PC " Young Turk " MPs ( along with John Herron, André Bachand and Peter MacKay ) who were considered the future youthful leadership material that would restore the ailing Tories to their glory days.

In July 2000, Brison resigned his seat so that PC leader Joe Clark could enter the House of Commons.

In the interim, Brison was appointed co-chair of the Tories ' Election Policy Platform Committee, and became vice-president of investment banking at Yorkton Securities in Toronto.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

He has served in positions of greater glamour, both at home and abroad ; ;

Tibet has historically served China as a buffer state.

one who is thoroughly human, who affects no dignity, and who is endowed with real ability, genuine worth, and sterling honesty -- all dedicated to secure the best interests of the country he has loved and served so long.

All but two of my nine terms in the House of Representatives has been served under the Speakership of Sam Rayburn.

I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.

The New York Central has pointed out that this control, if approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, would give the combined C. & O. - B. & O. Railroad a total of 185 points served in common with the New York Central.

and he has served our country well as a scientific statesman on international commissions.

Another less ambiguous case read as follows: `` The bearer of this letter has served me for two years to his complete satisfaction.

Teachers who have been upward mobile probably see education as most valuable for their students if it serves students as it has served them ; ;

Although refrigeration has served to extend the storage life of these products, substantially increased consumption might be possible if areas remote from the seacoast could be served adequately.

The school has not used cold prepared cereals for years, though at one time that was all they ever served.

In America, such self-deception has served a particularly useful purpose.

Dr. Clark has served as teacher and principal in Oklahoma high schools, as teacher and athletic director at Raymondville, Texas, High School, as an instructor at the University of Oklahoma, and as an associate professor of education at Fort Hays, Kan., State College.

He has served as a border patrolman and was in the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army.

This trend has often been ascribed to the cult of the Five Elements itself, as though they had served as the base for all the rest ; ;

In the common law, an answer is the first pleading by a defendant, usually filed and served upon the plaintiff within a certain strict time limit after a civil complaint or criminal information or indictment has been served upon the defendant.

Keem BayAchill Archaeological Field School is based at the Achill Archaeology Centre in Dooagh, which has served as a catalyst for a wide array of archaeological investigations on the island.

Agrippina landing at Brundisium with the ashes of Germanicus, ( 1768, Benjamin West, oil on canvas ). In art, Agrippina has served as a symbol of marital devotion and fidelity.

Dau Miu () is a Chinese vegetable that has become popular since the early 1990s, and now not only appears on English-language menus, usually as " pea shoots ", but is often served by upscale non-Asian restaurants as well.

It has since served as a museum to the independence movement.